We were honoured to be asked to participate at “Bugles at Dusk,” an exclusive private airshow hosted by Vic and Anne Norman at RFC Rendcomb. The event was held to raise funds for “Help for Heroes” and “Rifles Benevolent Fund.”

The Twister took part as part of the Swift Aerobatic Display Team’s display as well as the Twister Duo and at last we had equal amounts of smoke from both G-RIOT and G-TWST. If anything, we may had a bit too much as with no wind to clear it we displayed in cloud of our own making!

Rendcomb was also the first time my family came to see what I do when I disappear at weekends which was great but in a strange way I found it more worrying than displaying to 200000 strangers!

There were very varied displays from army parachutists from a Lynx helicopter, the Rendcomb based Wingwalker team, the silver Spitfire XI from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the Hangar 11 Collection’s P-40 Kittyhawk .

For me the two displays that stood out were John Allison’s Miles Gemini and Steve Jones in his newly acquired Pitts S2S.  They both performed perfectly and obviously enjoyed doing it!

Thanks to Vic and the Rendcomb team for a fantastically organised event and inviting us to participate. I hope a lot of money was taken for the charity.