It’s been a busy few weeks since Windsor…
Steve Jones and I have flown six displays as the Matadors in our Sukhoi 26’s… great fun and it is most enjoyable to fly formation aerobatics. We flew at Siverstone on the F1 race weekend and then flew at the Biggin Hill Air Fair. Whilst we were there, we were awarded the prize for the best team display which is very satisfying given the standards of the “competition”. I also flew the Mustang alongside Nigel Lamb in the Spitfire… again great fun. I was asked which I preferred, flying the Mustang or the Sukhoi? I enjoy both enormously so the answer has to be: the one I’m in at the time…
Last weekend saw Steve and I trundling up to Scotland to fly at “T in the Park”, a huge rock concert held at Balabo Park near Kinross… we landed at Glenrothes which is such a friendly and pleasant little airfield and enjoyed a traditional Scottish meal on the Friday night (I had the Chicken Dansak and Jonesey had the Korma)… and amazingly the weather was stunning and we enjoyed virtually cloud free flights up and back down again. The Saturday night found us in Norfolk for another event and then it was back home for a day off on Sunday…
My race Edge has just arrived in the UK and I’ll be looking at that tomorrow as well as flying my old Edge which has just completed its annual. I’ll be flying that for a couple of days to get some Edge handling under my belt so that come August, I won’t have completely forgotten how to fly one… we’ll be doing a little bit of work on the Engine in the next few weeks and some general tweaking on the aeroplane to get it into top shape for Budapest…