29/8/2021 Little Gransden Air Display

The Little Gransden Air and Car Show didn't take place in 2020 due to Covid. When I attended the previous year (see my earlier post) is was probably the hottest day of the year, and having no motorcycle at the time I was forced to come by car - at least the car's SatNav made this place easy to find as it's in the middle of nowhere! Two years later and things are different: I have another motorcycle - easily the best mode of travel to an event like the - apart from flying of course! Unfortunately the weather isn't as good as last time - cloudy and colder, but dry.

Like these rare Mk 1 Hurricanes some of the aircraft are familiar.

And some aren't - like this Stinson Reliant.

Another communications/liason aircraft - an Auster.

Training aircraft were represented by this North American Havard.

And also from the same stable the North American P-51 Mustang.

These were once a very familiar sight in these Cambridgeshire skies.

Unlike at Duxford you can get much closer to the aircraft at Little Gransden.

There were plenty of other interesting aircraft, but some of them flew in from elsewhere and performed a display then flew back home without landing - like the de Havilland Comet racer. It wasn't worth trying to take pictures of anything in the air with my non-telephoto lens equipped digicam or phone.

I was standing right behind this Hurricane when it started up - it blew my hat off and I had to run quite a long way to retrieve it!

Not as memorable an event as two years ago, but well worth a ride out into the wilds of Cambridgeshire - the atmosphere is far more informal and relaxed than the much bigger events at places like Duxford. It's not just an air display - it's a whole family day out experience with plenty of stalls selling stuff, a live band playing in one of the hangers, and also a car and motorcycle show - most of the cars seeming to be Mustangs old and new. Here's hoping for more of everything in 2022...