7th June 2009 – The Twister flew its first display at Old Warden this year, at the prestigious Shuttleworth Collection’s summer display. The atmosphere at Old Warden is quite unique with a variety  vintage aircraft and an abundance of motivated volunteers. We were invited to fill one of the three guest displays slots for the show, along with Peter Teichman’s P51 and the Yakovlevs.

The balmy weather we enjoyed in May gave way to a sequence of weather fronts, bringing continuous rain in the early hours and thunder storms after the show. Although Old Warden remained dry, the Yaks cancelled and neither the Edwardian aircraft or the Bleriot of the Shuttleworth Collection flew as the clouds built ominously in the afternoon.

We flew our now standard display profile to a very intimate crowd of 4,000 people, making use of the kinked crowd line infront of the museum hangars. Thanks must go to Julie Lack-White for the invitation and Paul Johnson for taking photographs but most importantly to Mike Newman for helping commentator Brian Lewis big up the Twister.