Linton Blades - Woodford 1972

Linton Blades - Woodford
19 August 1972
North West Air Display

Aircraft flown

XW302 / 61
XW304 / 62
XW307 / 66
XW364 / 74
XW409 / 78

These serial numbers come from the excellent Scramble website ( details are credited to Richard Sigley & Ian Dennis Old )

The 5th aircraft was either a spare ( probably flown by Bob Joy ) or the Solo Aerobatics representative.

The show started with the Red Arrows & ended with the Blades. Both teams signed a number of "special" envelopes which were specially franked for the show. Here's an example :-
The Linton Blades 1972 fdc

I managed to find a programme for this show. It mentions the Team. Unfortunately it has got Jon Bucklers name completely wrong,

Linton Blades team datails from the 1972 Woodford Airshow programme

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