At Clacton On Sea Essex Air show event on a much nicer day 2 Part 1 August 23
At Clacton On Sea Essex Air show event on a much nicer day 2 Part 1 August 23
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00:00I'm looking forward to a lovely display.
00:05It's a really lovely historic aircraft.
00:08Dates back to the 1930s.
00:10The first ever stomp was designed by a gentleman called Jean Stomp and Guy Vertigin.
00:15And they built it as a biplane training aircraft.
00:18The first ever stomp flew in 1933.
00:22So we're continuing our aviation heritage on day two of Clacton Airshow.
00:27If you look just past the pier, if you're on the beach,
00:31you can see the big orange buoy just out to the top of the pier.
00:35And just above that we have a three-ship of the Stomp Formation team
00:40approaching the beach, running in for their wonderful display.
00:44Shall we give them a round of applause, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
00:47the Stomp Formation display team.
00:58Yeah.
01:00Is it good?
01:02No, not quite so good.
01:05It's way too tight to come out of there.
01:18Is it good?
01:20Yeah.
01:22It's not bad.
01:24It's not bad.
01:27So here we go, the Stomp Formation display team.
01:30They're running in for the display, flying in a VIC-3 formation.
01:35This is a pointy arrow, which is a typical formation manoeuvre
01:41that a lot of the air displays use for the start of the display.
01:45You get a lovely view of the aircraft as they fly over the central commentary point
01:49here at Clacton Beach.
01:51We've got three Richards flying, just to make it difficult for me,
01:55all the way from the Tiger Club in Kent.
01:58The lead aircraft is a red and white aircraft,
02:02and to his left is a cream and green aircraft,
02:05and to the right, a yellow and blue.
02:08You should get some wonderful photographs this afternoon of the beautiful stomps.
02:26So as the three ship bank over towards where the wind farm is,
02:30you can see the wonderful design on the top of the wing,
02:33a kind of diagonal pattern design.
02:36They're very pretty little aircraft, as many of the Belgian aircraft were.
02:42And you can see as they fly towards the centre of the commentary point here,
02:47the beautiful design of the biplane, still flying in a VIC-3 formation.
02:52You can see the yellow aircraft waggling his wings a little bit there,
02:56just adjusting for wind as he makes his turn.
03:02We're going to see plenty of wingovers,
03:05which is really a clever way of changing direction in a very graceful manner.
03:09The stomp aircraft is actually designed with an inverted engine,
03:13which means it can fly upside down, unlike the Tiger Moth.
03:22Now, as I said earlier, the stomp was designed in the 1930s era.
03:35The first model was an SV-4A, it then became an SV-4B.
03:40As an advanced aerobatic trainer, it had redesigned wings
03:44and a 130-horsepower de Havilland Gypsy major engine.
03:48Now, the team are now splitting off.
03:50We've got smoke trailing from one of the aircraft
03:53as he makes a beautiful wingover left and then banking over towards the wind farm.
03:58They reposition themselves into a liner stand, which is basically follow my leader.
04:05Now, if you look closely, you'll be able to see the pilots.
04:09They will be able to see you today, so do make sure you give them plenty of waves.
04:13As they bank round to a wingover to the right,
04:16you can see the beautiful, graceful way that they're flying these aircraft
04:21and pulling up and banking over towards the wind farm.
04:27Very pretty little airplane, I'm very fond of this.
04:31Now, the stomps were primarily used by the French Air Force.
04:34Originally, there was just 35 aircraft built during World War II,
04:39and then it was introduced to the Belgian Air Force.
04:43Actually, they continued to fly it in the Belgian Air Force all the way through to 1975,
04:49and later 940 of them were licensed as the SV4 model to fly in both France and Algeria.
04:58Many of the aircraft ended up at aero clubs throughout France and then later to the UK,
05:04and most of the stomps that you see at airshows today are privately owned or belong to museums.
05:43Music
05:47Flying centre over the beach now, the aircraft are moving back from round the Robin,
06:15chasing each other to the VIC-3 formation manoeuvre again.
06:19As they point out towards the sea, just heading towards the end of the pier.
06:24The stomp is really a favourite aircraft with many display pilots,
06:28and actually many of them favour it to the Tiger Moth, which is its English sister biplane aircraft.
06:35Lots of the pilots say the stomp is prettier, I have to say I do agree.
06:40If you look closely at the tail of the aircraft, you'll see it's got a rounded rudder and wing shape
06:46compared to the more angular design of the de Havilland shape of the Tiger Moth.
06:51Now, one of the team members who's not actually flying today, Roger, he flies from my local aerodrome,
06:57we were having a chat about the stomp recently, and he said to me,
07:00comparing it to the stomp, it just does it better.
07:04The controls have a more immediate effect, whereas it's a slightly delayed response with the Tiger Moth.
07:09And he said it's such a graceful aircraft to fly,
07:13and there's nothing more satisfying than looking at the sun glint over the wing.
07:18And we have a wonderful view of that on this glorious sunny day here at Clacton Airshow.
07:24Centre crowd now, the aircraft are line of stand, all one after the other, pointing towards the crowd.
07:32Get your cameras ready, as I think we might be getting ready for a brake manoeuvre.
07:43Oh, isn't that wonderful? Just gracefully done there, banking over.
07:48We've got a great view of the underbelly of the aircraft as they bank around,
07:52wing over left towards the pier on the yellow aircraft, pointing directly out to sea to the wing farm.
08:00And the lead aircraft, the red and white one, is pulling up and doing a gentle aileron roll.
08:06Just a very graceful, gentle manoeuvre, which is often seen at a lot of aerobatic competitions.
08:13So a kind of basic level of aerobatic competitions,
08:16which would have been originally in the 1970s and 80s, you would have seen the stomp.
08:20A kind of routine for a basic aerobatic pilot, this first go at a competition,
08:26would do something like a loop, a wing over and then an aileron roll,
08:31where the aircraft turns completely 360 degrees.
08:34It sounds like an easy manoeuvre to do, but it's actually quite tricky to keep it correct
08:39and keep the aircraft at the right altitude and not turn around and then end up sort of diving down or climbing.
08:46So it takes a little bit of practice, but it's very satisfying when you get it right.
08:53Now, Sam, I have on the commentary point a special guest,
08:57who was going to be taking us through the Great War display.
09:01Sadly, that's the one casualty today because of the wind.
09:06Debs Boddington, I'm sorry, we can't see your team today,
09:10but you're paying particular attention to this sort, aren't you?
09:13I certainly am. I was very lucky as a child.
09:16My father used to fly a stomp and I spent a lot of my childhood in the front of one.
09:21What's it like inside then?
09:23Because the seat is temporary, you actually can't see out very much.
09:28And being little, I was put in the front and just had to hope that I got to where I was supposed to be going,
09:33because I couldn't see.
09:34How old would you have been when you were in the stomp?
09:37I started about age five. Dad took me everywhere with him from the age of five,
09:41dropped me off at an air show and picked me up eight hours later.
09:45No wonder you love it so much and tinged with such sadness
09:49that we won't see the Great War display today,
09:52but the conditions where they're based is not suitable for a take-off.
09:56No, unfortunately not. It's much windier, as Dave said, up north,
10:00and the other casualty was the fourth stomp, which came from the same area as we were coming from,
10:05so we're really sad not to have been able to display at Clacton today.
10:09Well, three out of four ain't bad. I think it was something like that meatloaf sang about.
10:13Debs, thank you so much for being with us, nonetheless, and helping us with our programmes today.
10:18You're very welcome. It's good to be here.
10:20Debs Boddington, commentator with the Great War display team,
10:23also a sister of the leader of that display team,
10:27but sadly they're in line with the Tudor coming in very soon after the stomp team.
10:32Look at this now, as all three of them in line look like they're heading directly for us, don't they?
10:38Yes, the three stomps are heading straight towards the beach.
10:42I think they may be pulling up.
10:44Oh, look at that, a wonderful break.
10:47That's lovely. All three of the aircraft broke in different directions.
10:51One to the left, one to the right, one above.
10:59Now, the stomp formation team actually grew out of the Tiger Club,
11:04which is one of the oldest established flying clubs in the world.
11:07It's the club that I joined when I wanted to learn to fly
11:10and decided I wanted to start Tailwell and do it the difficult old way.
11:13Back in the 1970s, Chris Jessen, who was a member of the Tiger Club
11:19and an owner of one of the stomps that still displays with the team today,
11:23he decided to create the stomp formation team.
11:27They then appeared at many shows during the 80s and 90s,
11:32and at some point they displayed with two stomps and two Tigers,
11:36which was always a fun display.
11:38Chris was really well known for his solo aerobatics as well.
11:42We're getting a wing waggle from the two lead aircraft
11:46as they head back towards the direction of Clacton Aeroclub.
11:50The lead aeroplane, the red and white one,
11:53is now pulling up for a solo aerobatic routine.
11:57We're going to be absolutely delighted now.
12:00It truly is like a ballet in the sky.
12:09Wow. And set against the blue sky.
12:12They walk like formation routines on the ground and learn their positions.
12:16The old techniques still ring true today.
12:19A lot of these old aircraft, the radios aren't actually very good.
12:22Often when they're flying in close formation, they use hand signals.
12:26The leader will pump his hand up and down three times
12:30and then hold his fingers apart to say,
12:32one, two, three, and break.
12:34The other pilots will look and watch those hand signals.
12:37It just rings true that sometimes the old ways are the better.
12:41We've got the beach patrol jet ski out in front of us
12:45on the commentary point at the moment,
12:47just making sure everybody is safe.
12:49The advice, I'm afraid, is that you can't go into the water
12:53whilst the flying is taking place.
12:55So play on the beach by all means.
12:57It's lovely to see so many on the beach today as we look left to right.
13:01But you cannot go into the water and swim
13:04whilst the aircraft are flying above us.
13:08And a lovely demonstration of a beautiful aileron roll just there
13:12as the aircraft just very slowly turned on the 360 with complete accuracy.
13:18The Stomp was chosen for aerobatic flying
13:20because it really has such aerobatic prowess.
13:23It's got excellent handling qualities
13:26and it also has a precise formation mount
13:28which makes it ideal for flying in aerobatic competitions.
13:33Back in the 70s and 80s,
13:35the Stomps were really busy in international team flying at shows.
13:39There was a very famous team called the Rothmans aerobatic team
13:43in the early 1970s.
13:45And in France, La Patrie de Saint-Yves was another well-known team.
13:50During its time with the Rothmans,
13:52the Stomp was flown by really well-known pilots
13:54such as Neil Williams, Manx Kelly, and Barry Tempest,
13:58Dempsey we were just speaking to used to fly her when he was flying the Tiger Moth
14:02and she'd stand on the wing and wing walk on top.
14:06Absolutely crazy.
14:08A quick hi to CJ, Teddy, JJ, Samantha, and Charlie.
14:12They're watching in the crowd somewhere.
14:14They are the biggest fans of the airshow, says Mia.
14:17And could you give my granddad Bob a shout-out, please?
14:19We're by the railings at the Greensward loving it.
14:21Of course I can, Lewis.
14:24And now get your cameras ready for the final pass
14:28before we welcome the tutor.
14:30So cameras at the ready before we say goodbye to the Stomp formation.
14:35And a lovely wing waggle there from the lead pilot,
14:39the team leader, Richard Ward, all the way from Kent today
14:42who was joined by Richard Burlyand and another Richard,
14:46just to make it simple, Richard Meredith.
14:48So thank you to the three Richards.
14:51You might be able to see our tutor now.
14:53He's just coming in from the east of the beach.
14:58Looking stunning if you're listening at home.
15:00That white aircraft set against a blue sky
15:04and look out for that rather large canopy.
15:07A training aircraft.
15:09I'm sure Lloyd is going to take us through all of that
15:12on what it's used for
15:14and what Bob's going to be doing in it today for us here at Clacton.
15:21Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
15:23Welcome to the 2024 Royal Air Force tutor display.
15:26My name is Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Mammott
15:28and I'm the tutor display manager this season.
15:30It's a pleasure to display the grub for you all today.
15:34And now from the centre at nearly 200 miles per hour
15:38is the tutor display pilot, Flight Lieutenant Bob Dews.
15:42As he pulls up at 5G, he converts his speed into height
15:46to perform his first manoeuvre, the Hammerhead.
15:49Flight Lieutenant Dews was born in Carmarthen, South Wales
15:52and started his flying career in the Royal Air Force in 1989,
15:55flying the VC-10 out of RAF Brice Norton
15:58and then as a search and rescue pilot on the Sea King.
16:06From the end of this hard work,
16:09from the end of this half horizontal,
16:11Bob will push negative 2G to level the aircraft
16:14upside down for the inverted pass.
16:21This is Bob's first year with the tutor display.
16:23He's operating at a base height of 500ft
16:25except the two final passes at 300ft.
16:35The next two manoeuvres are the wingover
16:37and the ballistic roll, which Bob can use
16:39to gain energy for the next part of the sequence.
16:42The ballistic rolls are flown in opposite directions
16:44to maintain his line.
16:58When not displaying, Bob is a qualified flying instructor
17:00on 115 Squadron, based at RAF Wittering,
17:03where he trains the future generation of Royal Air Force pilots
17:06as well as converting frontline pilots
17:08into qualified flying instructors.
17:10During his varied career, Bob has amassed
17:12over 8,000 flying hours on 15 different aircraft types.
17:16This represents over a full year in the air.
17:33After completing this half Cuban,
17:35Bob will enter the slow roll.
17:38Get your cameras ready for some great angles.
17:49Throughout the slow roll, Bob will skilfully coordinate
17:51elevator, rudder and aileron inputs
17:53to keep the lift vector pointing upwards.
17:55This prevents him from descending towards the ground.
17:58The tutor has a top speed of 212mph
18:01and can achieve maximum positive 6G,
18:03meaning the pilot is subject to forces
18:05six times stronger than gravity.
18:07Next we have another wingover,
18:09a combined pitching and rolling manoeuvre
18:11used to turn the flight path through 180 degrees.
18:14You'll notice that every wingover is slightly different
18:16as Bob carefully selects his flight path
18:18to cater for differing wind conditions
18:20and aircraft energy states.
18:33Bob now rolls 90 degrees whilst pointing straight up,
18:47before completing a stall turn at almost zero airspeed.
18:50The two 90 degree turns allow Bob
18:52to continue in the same direction.
18:57The tutor is operated by No. 6 Flying Training School
19:00in partnership with Babcock International Group,
19:02primarily flying University Air Squadron students
19:04and RAF Air Cadets.
19:06There are 13 air experience flights across the UK
19:09that offer flights to up to 20,000 cadets each year.
19:12You can join the RAF Cadets if you're between
19:1412 and 17 years old.
19:17...thing in the opposite direction to the entry.
19:19In the next manoeuvre, the four-point roll,
19:32Bob will delicately use the rudder
19:34to support the nose above the horizon
19:36whilst flying at 90 degrees angle of bank.
19:42You may have noticed the Royal Air Force
19:44Benevolent Fund Heart on the belly of the aircraft,
19:46which has been used since 2022
19:48to celebrate this fantastic charity.
19:50The Benevolent Fund supports Royal Air Force personnel,
19:52air cadets and veterans whenever they are in need.
19:55We're proud to raise awareness for a charity
19:57that gives so much to the whole of the Royal Air Force family.
20:00Visit our tent, website or view our tutor display leaflets
20:03to access a QR code to donate to the Benevolent Fund.
20:11For those of you that are considering going to university,
20:13there are 15 University Air Squadrons across the UK.
20:16Students on University Air Squadrons are taught
20:18to fly the tutor by highly experienced
20:20military flying instructors like Bob.
20:23University Air Squadrons provide a huge opportunity
20:25for personal development as well as a wide variety
20:27of adventure training in the UK
20:29and expeditions across the globe.
20:31We're now in the high energy section of the display
20:34with the derry turn, the quarter clover
20:36and now the loop,
20:38which is a quintessential aerobatic manoeuvre.
20:44As he pulls up, Bob is subject to 5G.
20:46He aims to pitch the aircraft around
20:48an imaginary circle in the sky.
20:50This is a great opportunity for students
20:52to learn more about aeronautics
20:54and how aeronautics can help them
20:56to become better pilots.
21:01Even whilst inverted, the centrifugal forces
21:03keep him pressed into his seat.
21:07Today the Royal Air Force is recruiting for multiple
21:09rewarding and demanding professions
21:11and has an exciting future with the continued development
21:13of our combat and maritime patrol aircraft
21:15and UK Space Command.
21:17They will soon be joined by the introduction
21:19of our airborne early warning.
21:31The high tempo of operations continues today
21:33with aircraft and personnel
21:35deployed around the world
21:37operating with NATO and our other allies.
21:41Bob will now bring the tutor round
21:43for the final section of the display
21:45with another ballistic roll and half horizontal.
22:01I would like to take this moment
22:03to say a big thank you to our supporters this season.
22:05They are the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund,
22:07Squadron Prince and Babcock
22:09who have provided much of the merchandise
22:11we are giving out at our stand this season.
22:21Bob will now bring the tutor round
22:23for his departing wave.
22:25This is another great photo opportunity.
22:31If you look carefully
22:33you should be able to see him waving
22:35so please give him a big wave back.
22:39A big thank you to Clacton
22:41for hosting us today.
22:43Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls
22:45the 2024 Royal Air Force Tutor display.
23:01Wow!
23:03Superb!
23:05What a fantastic display
23:07for 2024 from the tutor team.
23:09Thank you so much Lloyd
23:11for that.
23:13And a little birdie tells me
23:15this is your last display with the team.
23:17Is that right?
23:19This is my last display, yes.
23:21So I've been on the season
23:23for five months with them now.
23:25OK, what's next for you then?
23:27I'm going off to America for three months
23:29with the United States Air Force.
23:31Wow, well good luck with that.
23:33Thank you so much for being with us today.
23:35The team manager
23:37Isabel Woods is here.
23:59So as the aircraft
24:01make their way to the centre of the crown
24:03just a beautiful wing over to the left
24:05they're flying side by side
24:07pulling up for a loop
24:09the smoke is trailing
24:11as they do the display
24:13they will be flying from between
24:15zero miles an hour at some points
24:17when they're upside down and just hanging
24:19waiting to come over the top of a loop
24:21all the way up to 200
24:23miles per hour.
24:25The aircraft is stressed to fly
24:27plus 6 minus 3G
24:29now what does that feel like?
24:31Plus 6 is a bit like a large
24:33cow sitting on your chest
24:35and flying an aerobatic plane
24:37is quite complicated
24:39so it's also like doing a crossword
24:41while standing on your head.
24:55You've blown it all sky high
24:59By telling me a lie
25:03Without a reason why
25:07You've blown it all sky high
25:13You've blown it all sky high
25:17Our love had been too far
25:21We could have touched the sky
25:24You've blown it all sky high
25:36Oh, my, my, my, my
25:42Then that, that, that, that
25:46Don't look like a star
25:50I gave you love
25:53I thought that we
25:56Had made it to the top
25:59I gave you all I had to give
26:03Why did you have to stop?
26:06You've blown it all sky high
26:10By telling me a lie
26:14Without a reason why
26:17So flying for us this afternoon
26:19we've got in the lead a pilot
26:21in the other aircraft is John Dodd or Doddy
26:23now both of these pilots
26:25have a huge amount of aerobatic experience
26:27they've flown lots of historic aircraft
26:29over the years
26:31but their day jobs, they both fly
26:33for British Airways as captains
26:35so you may find when you go on your holidays
26:37that you've got aerobatic pilots
26:39at the helm
26:41the aircraft flying way up high above our heads
26:43here on Clacton Beak
26:45the smoke is trailing
26:47a really lovely tight wing over to the left
26:49and punching out towards the pier
26:53we've got a fantastic smoke system on board
26:55it's all environmentally friendly smoke
26:57it takes a lot of work
26:59to get these aircraft ready for the shows
27:01and that's all down to their
27:03ground crew engineer Tom Everett
27:05who's worked very hard across the weekend
27:07supporting the team
27:09making sure the aircraft are ready
27:11and those of you that were here last night
27:13will have seen them perform their
27:15pyrotechnic night display
27:17so before today's display
27:19they had to de-rig all of the
27:21pyrotechnic equipment
27:23before they could take off for today's show
27:29as they pulled up
27:31to the top of a stall turn there
27:33one aircraft flew behind the other
27:35on a crossover and now they're flying
27:37in opposition, so one aircraft
27:39is flying directly towards the pier
27:41the other aircraft flying towards the
27:43Reykjavik end of the beach
27:45as they do a gentle aileron roll
27:47smoke still trailing
27:49punching out into that beautiful
27:51sunny sky here at Klaxen
27:53this afternoon
28:07get ready for the opposition pass
28:09and they're pulling up
28:11the smoke is trailing, I think Ian
28:13is one of your favourite bits here
28:15as we may see, oh no, not the heart
28:17or sort of a heart
28:19we've got a lopsided heart here
28:21this afternoon as the wind direction
28:23is pushing the smoke before they can
28:25even complete the manoeuvre
28:27well I'll take that, I'll have any kind of heart
28:29you know me, oh what a
28:31fantastic display
28:33looking out from the commentary point to the left
28:35towards Clacton Pier, I can see loads
28:37of people at the end of Clacton Pier
28:39Jolly Roger, all listening
28:41to Radio Airshow, so good afternoon to you
28:47flying in opposition
28:49now, one towards the other to the
28:51centre part of the beach, smoke is
28:53trailing, they are going up
28:55pulling up, it looks like this might be
28:57the second attempt of
28:59oh no, we're doing
29:01opposition stall turns
29:03this is a fantastic aerobatic
29:05manoeuvre if you're doing aerobatic competition
29:07flying, it's really great
29:09fun, you get your airspeed
29:11on the horizontal, put your
29:13airspeed up, then you pull up
29:15as high as you can go, you get
29:17to the top and you hover momentarily
29:19not moving, and then
29:21dip over the top
29:23and then a little bit of rudder, adjust
29:25for a 45 degree angle and
29:27fly out
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