Hi everyone! It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted to blog. As with everything there are lots of reasons; I have had some ordinary days when little seemed to happen, some busy days when too much seemed to be happening and then felt a bit daunted about writing this catch up post.
We went to the Air Day at Kemble on 17th June. These shows are often on Sundays and we took the opportunity to go this year. We regularly pass the airfield at Kemble on our way to Chippenham. It used to be a large RAF base but is now decommissioned. It was for 20 years the home of The Red Arrows and they performed a vituoso display of formation flying. It really is incredible how close they fly to one another. We saw the Team Guinot wing walkers, young ladies strapped to the wings of bi-planes, who flew past right way up and upside down whilst waving- thankfully managed to persuade Bev not to join up!
Another highlight was a simulated operation to take possession of the base from "enemy fighters"; this involved AWACS, Tornado fighters and a Herculaes C130 fom nearby RAF Lyneham carrying troops and Land Rovers. Our home in Chippenham was under the flypath and the Hercules is a familar sight.
The Typhoon or Eurofighter displayed and this the newest plane in the RAF fleet performed some incredible manoeuvres seeming at times to stop and turn a corner!
The cost of war was brought home with a flypast by a VC10 from the Falklands 25 display.
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