Post by dave1955 on Jul 7, 2013 18:45:28 GMT 1
I wondered if anyone remembers the Barnstormers Flying Circus, a sort of 'Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines' outfit from the Seventies? I recall seeing them perform at a number of shows but I think they only appeared once at Liverpool, during the 1972 'Wings over Merseyside' air display on Saturday 29 April. I was there with my dad on the day when this bloke came over and said the Barnstormers were a bit shorthanded and would we like to help them out with their display? So we ended up as lookouts in the back of a van barreling across the grass field while under attack from flour-bombs hand-thrown from the low flying 'enemy' planes. I also ended up holding up one of two Limbo poles with an attached rope (which had been soaked in petrol and then set alight!) while the pilots flew their planes underneath. Great fun! 
I don't know who the pilots were at the time but here are photos of three of the aircraft used in the display:
DH82A Tiger Moth G-ADIA.
DHC-1 Chipmunk 22 G-ARGG.
Tipsy Nipper T66 G-AVKT. Just four months later, this aircraft was destroyed in a crash during a display at Burton Constable Hall in Yorkshire on 19 August 1972.
Hope these photos stirred some memories!
I don't know who the pilots were at the time but here are photos of three of the aircraft used in the display:
DH82A Tiger Moth G-ADIA.
DHC-1 Chipmunk 22 G-ARGG.
Tipsy Nipper T66 G-AVKT. Just four months later, this aircraft was destroyed in a crash during a display at Burton Constable Hall in Yorkshire on 19 August 1972.
Hope these photos stirred some memories!
