Unfortunately the weather forecast was not very good on the Saturday. In the morning it was dry with some very short spells of sunshine, but when the flying activity started also rain made its appearance. In the beginning small showers, but around hrs the showers transformed in some very heavy rain, forcing the organization to end the flying around hrs, so several announced participants remained firmly on the ground. As always the show was opened by a duo of local aircraft, but this year there was a small change Despite the unfavorable weather the oldest aircraft in the collection made an appearance in the flying program.
First on the list was a Deperdussin T replica. Final aircraft in this section is a Caudron GIII, that was initially used for reconnaissance and a very short time as a bomber, in later years it was used in the training role. Most numerous types are off course of French origin. All these 'allied' aircraft were scrambled against the German invasion consisting of a Fokker E. III , a Fokker D. VII and an Albatross C2. As always the 'good' guys were in the majority and won the various dogfights.
For those who want to make a 'solo' flight Aero Vintage Academy had various aircraft on offer, but the most exciting must be the flight in a powerful North American T28 Trojan, a training aircraft that used to be in the inventory of the US Air Force.
In the formation two aircraft appear that don't really look like a Harvard, but they were 'born' as one. The attack itself is a fairly exact recreation of the events on December 7th, Pyrotechnics reinforce the effect of the bombings and the anti-aircraft fire.
This year there were three Yakovlev Yak 3 and a sole Yakovlev Yak11 to commemorate these men. Oldest type present was a Gloster Gladiator Mk. This biplane was still on the inventory of the Royal Air Force at the start of the conflict in A more modern type was the Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIA, which formed the backbone of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, during which Germany tried to weaken the British air defense as a prelude to a ground invasion.
