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Dassault Rafale C No.140 code 4-VA Rafale Solo Display (RSD) 2026 French Air and Space Force flown by Captain Alexandre “Rocky” Roeckel – Le Temps des Hélices Airshow La Ferté-Alais May 23-24, 2026
The pilot of this extraordianry replica of the Boxkite waits for the ground crew to arrive with the step ladder, so he can dismount after the display.
One of the aircraft used in the film 'Reach For the Sky', based on Paul Brickhill's life of Douglas Bader.
One of the aircraft used in the film 'Reach For the Sky', based on Paul Brickhill's life of Douglas Bader.
Stourton, Wiltshire.
From 'The Sunday Herald', 15th June 1996:
A pilot who died after steering his plane away from spectators at an air show was praised yesterday for his bravery. Wiltshire coroner David Masters said display pilot Robin Bowes, 51, loved flying and was obviously brave and skilful. He added "It appears even at the last he sought to avoid persons on the ground at fatal risk to himself.''
A jury at Salisbury returned a verdict of accidental death on Mr Bowes, of Ivybridge, Devon, who died when his plane crashed and burst into flames at Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire, last July. He was flying his replica of German World War One air ace the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane. It crashed at National Trust centenary celebrations.
The hearing was told the plane went into a steep dive and then banked away, hitting a tree before crashing and bursting into flames. Mr Bowes died from burns.
Witness Mrs Hilary Higson, who was attending the event with her two young children, said "He banked away to avoid us. If he had made a forced landing, he would have come straight into us. It was a heroic thing he did.''
Air accident investigators said one of the plane's two rudder hinges had metal fatigue and had fractured, which would have caused difficulties controlling it. A fault in the rudder would affect the directional stability.
Grob G.115E Tutor T.1
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16 Squadron
RAF
Display Pilot Flt Lt Shaun Kimberley
Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT)
RAF Fairford
Gloucestershire
England
4-8 July 2012
A sunny spring day over the Scottish Highlands with this rare nmachine!
Believed to be only a small number of Extra EA-230s were ver built between 1983 and 1990
I am presumimg this is the 2012 Hawk display pilot, Flight Lieutenant Philip Bird, in action. Find out about him here: www.raf.mod.uk/hawkdisplayteam/theteam/displaypilot.cfm