Thanks for the heads up, Fouga23. I was at Manston yesterday with some of my Air Cadets, keeping the general public away from Spitfire BM597, flown in for the 60th anniversary of the end of WW2. They told us that two spitfires would be doing a flypast and at 12.00 on the dot they came streaming past with 161 looking fantastic in her Air Corps colours! Brought a tear to my eye! (it was a bit of dust actually!)
The other one was the silver Griffon engined one, I don't know the reg. but they beat up the airfield a couple of times and then headed up to Duxford.
Then it was Flt.Lt. Charlie Browns turn and he took off in BM597 and did a couple of low and fast passes in front of the crowd, finishing off with a victory roll-he told my daughter he'd do that when he saw her in the crowd! so of course she was chuffed! Brilliant!
