Five gallant Busy Bee-ers gathered at Otterspool Way to set off for far off Duxford and two more joined us at the Silver Ball.
We took the scenic route to the A10 via Hatfield Tunnel, where the hooligans amongst us reveled in the sound of their Harleys echoing off the walls of the tunnel, on to Hertford, the back road to Bengeo and Wadesmill to the A10.
A straight run to the Silver Ball at Reed, near Royston. Disaster struck! The Silver Ball cafe was shut for two days. No number two breakfast or even a cup of tea! We stood around trying to think of somewhere to go but could not come up with any suggestions. We pressed on thinking we may see somewhere in Royston but no luck. We stopped at a lay-by and decided to carry on to Duxford.
The traffic was unusually light and we were directed around the M11 roundabout into the top end of the museum. We stopped at the ticket booths where one member on a Triumph Sprint, who shall be nameless, gave the poor woman in the booth such a sob story that she let him pay just the disabled persons rate! We parked on a large area of hard standing and went off having made some arrangements to possibly get together for the flying display. The weather forecast had been for rain later in the day and I think that affected the numbers. Perhaps people had chosen to go on the Saturday. There certainly was not the atmosphere of previous shows. We had some light rain but the flying display started on time. There were some aircraft not seen before including some replica WW 1 bi-planes which were slow and sedate in complete contrast with what was to follow. The Bristol Blenheim was another plane making its debut.
The clouds were getting lower and by four p.m. the two planes doing close formation aerobatics were disappearing into the clouds at the tops of their loops. We agreed we had probably seen the best of the display and decided to make for home. We rode through some light rain on our way to the A1M but otherwise the journey home was uneventful
