Busy Weekend

 There were a cople of things in the calendar this weekend, the "Air Day" at Blackbushe Aerodrome & "Brooklands Re-lived" at - unsurprisingly - Brooklands.

Air Day is a nice event, quite low key, but a bunch of interesting cars turn up & a bunch of interesting planes fly in. there isn't an airshow as such, but there are often "fly-bys" & joy rides, as well as the usual comings & goings. So here's the Stylus parked up between a lovely Italian Car - & a modern Ferrari.

The 500 had alloys & a pearl paint job & looked lovely in the sunshine.

After we parked, we started by looking at the planes.

I've mentioned this one before, Lockheed Electra G-AFTL, was bought for clandestine spying using hidden cameras to photograph Germany before WWII - look it up, it's a fascinating story.

There were a couple of Yakovlev trainers, bought in after the wall came down.

Also a couple of Miles Messengers, surely Sufficient in the tail department. Designed to a request from within the ranks rather than an "official" requirement, the war office initially refused to buy any out of sheer pique, but relented & several were used as transports for high ranking folk, including if I remember rightly, Montgomery into France on D-Day. This is the only surviving ex-military one.

We were visited by the BBMF Lancaster, which did three fly-bys & caused many a phone to be pointed skyward.

Two '32 model Bs, fantastic.

I've not seen this orange DS before, also, I've not seen a DS with alloy wheels before. These things must've looked like space ships when they were first shown at the Motor Show & everyone was driving Pops & Morris Minors.

More orange - but with added flake, there's not too many cars can carry off a big flake paint job, but it just looks so good on a Buggy.

And to finish up - A Sierra pick up with a working jet engine in the back - obviously.