My first visit to WAVE ;)

[hunterxf382]

Well after a brilliant weekend on-base as part of the groundcrew on G-FFOX (Black Hunter T7) and Neil McCarthy's JP - I fulfilled a promise to John and popped round on the departures Monday once we had packed up on site... It was worth it - made to feel very welcome by John and he even fed us - top bloke
It's a great place you have there John, you should be proud indeed - if only other airfields followed your example and catered for the enthusiasts in this way
Had a 2 hour drive ahead of me to get back home or we would have stopped there longer, but now that I've been there once, I will return again (probably 2013's show but the wait will be worth it...lol)
The whole Waddington experience was memorable for all of us on the aircraft crew - first time for a lot of us apart from Neil McCarthy who's been there most years with the JP Seeing the photos coming out of our Hunter is great - worth the hard graft cleaning & polishing her and getting 3rd place on static was the icing on the cake for us....
Anyway - enough waffling - nice to meet those that I did at WAVE - and you can find me on facebook where my on-site photos show what we got up to....

PS: We were obviously in the right place at the right time for the Phantom departure - seeing the entire take-off and high speed circuit from WAVE just couldn't be beaten.... what a place to view from

Pete Buckingham

[Flyingmonster]

Pete great to see you on FC and a true pleasure chatting to you on Monday at the WAVE! Was superb of you and Alex to pop across!

Hope your slowly recovering after your joy ride ytesterday

Hope to catch you soon

[hunterxf382]

I am recovering but it's been made rather difficult after hearing the awful news of the Bronco incident at Kemble. I was only chatting to Tony right after my arrival and have spent the evening finding out how he's doing etc... fingers crossed for him and only when I know he'll be alright will I get back to what happened to me on Monday....