We'd like to thank everyone for coming along today - it was good to meet up with many of the regulars and quite a few new faces.
Norm's suggestion of using this location worked very well. RAF Museum London is perfect, far better in my opinion than Brooklands, which has gone Health & Safety mad with reams of paperwork to fill in when you want to hold an event there, £100 deposit and not exactly cheap entrance fee. By comparison, Hendon has one A4 event application sheet to complete and free entry.
As others have said, it was a cracking way to start the UKBEG 2010 events season.
There were 32 Buells in total, 11 off 1125's (a record) with CR's outnumbering the R's, 4 off tubers and 17 assorted XB's.
Our visit yesterday to the Aviation Centre at East Kirkby for their help in completing the documentation which the RAF BBMF sent me, means that we will have an RAF Spitfire flypast on Em's Day. The only thing left to arrange is the timing of the flypast, we should know this 2 or 3 weeks before the event on 17th July.
Over the two days we covered 464 miles in total and despite yesterday's rain (and Jane's Guzzi getting all mucked up - again!) we really enjoyed the weekend.
East Kirkby's Lancaster bomber, 'Just Jane', is 65 years old this year:
Hendon this morning, before the rabble arrived, our Ulysses with a suitable backdrop:
UKBEG Buells, including most of the 1125's:
A few aeronautical gems in the museums collection:
P-51 Mustang:
ME Bf109:
Me262:
Yeah, right....
Jane and FW190:
P-47 Thunderbolt:
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Chris & Jane Jessop
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Left home in a bit of a flap and got to Fleet Services before I realised my flies were undone, no wonder I got cold. 
