Building on the popularity of past displays we have again secured the services of two iconic aircraft for the 2010 Show

Feel the air vibrate to the sound of highly tuned piston-engined aircraft.

purely for aerobatic competition and possibly the most agile byplane ever built.

Pitts Special Designed in the USA in the 1940’s by the legendary Curtiss Pitts, it was designed purely as an aerobatic biplane and in the 1970’s it swept the board in the World Aerobatics Team Championships. This aircraft is an S-2B variant with a Lycoming 260 hp engine and is stressed to + 6 & -3g, with a rate of climb of 2000 ft/min and a gut wrenching roll rate of 270 degrees/sec. It is based at Popham Airfield and will be flown for us by Paul Ambrose, whose day job is a Training Captain with a major Airline, and he will close the Show with a ‘white knuckle’ low level aerobatic display.

 

On Sunday we will feature the Kent Spitfire,

Spitfire Mk IX This aircraft was built at Castle Bromwich in late 1944, and given the RAF No. TA805. It started its career at No.39 Maintenance Unit before joining No.183 Squadron in June 1945 & then was transferred to No.234 Squadron in July, before finally seeing service with the South African Air Force in 1949. Many would argue that the Mk IX was the best Spitfire of them all, combining a balanced mix of handling and performance from its uprated Merlin 70 engine and it was a match for the legendary Focke Wulfe190 flown by the Luftwaffe. It is now based at Biggin Hill and is known as ‘The Kent Spitfire’.