Air Shows

The first air show of the season didn’t quite go to plan. Although there was beautiful wall to wall blue sky and sunshine with crystal clear atmospheric conditions there was also a 25 to 30 knot wind, gusting at times, blowing across the runway and into the crowd. This severely curtailed the flying display in the afternoon. It may have been the forecast of sunshine and blue sky that attracted the crowds as I had to queue for about 30 minutes to get in which is something I don’t often do when arriving early at Old Warden. The star attraction of the Russian themed air display was the Polikarpov Po.2, which was making its first public air show appearance for which the Soviet Air Attaché from London had been invited to watch.