17th May 2009 – 17th May was Duxford’s first show of the year, the “Best of British” show featured civil and historic aircraft, both vintage and modern, so it was entirely appropriate
to have Spitfires mixed in with the Silence Twister, built in Britain and flown by Peter Wells.

Rain showers in the morning put paid to the flightline walk for many and the 25Kt on-crowd wind lead to many cancelations, most disappointing was the Mew Gull, Alex Henshaw’s Cape Town record machine “XF”, made more poignant as his 70yr old record has only just been broken by Charles ‘Chalkie’ Stobbart in a modern Osprey GP-4 aircraft.

Highlights of the Show included the B25 ‘Grumpy’, Mark Jefferies in his newly-acquired Extra 330SC, and the Chinook, truly like an aerobatic block of flats!

Team Member Mike Newman helped Airsound’s Sean Maffet with the commentary for our integrated 11 minute display, and announced our new sponsor, BESAM. BESAM is part of the ASSA ABLOY Group and is the international market leader in automatic door systems. Their range of quite, safe and efficient sliding doors has a remarkable synergy with what we do, so we are looking forward to a productive relationship with the Swedish company. UK Operations Director Steve Wallis met the Team at Duxford, and even tried the Swift glider for size.

The Team would like to thank Jeanne Frazer for the oportunity of displaying at Duxford, and fulfilling a life long dream for all of us.