By Very Popular Demand

Every so often someone comes along who just has that certain extra something.

A complete inability to be dull and a healthy understanding that actually, yes, the rules of physics do exist but can be adjusted are some of the endearing qualities which mean not only have we listened to the crowd, but we can have an old friend back.

He's called Rich and he qualifies as more than having that extra something. He's assuredly not dull and the laws of physics, well they can be adjusted with something called power.

So, vast numbers of people in the crowd have demanded once again to see what happens when you get a sort of mad professor strap two jet engines to his already souped up 'Muscle Pitts' aerobatic biplane and then demonstrate what a 1:1 Power to Weight Ratio actually means. It means hovering, nose pointing straight up literally static in mid air, accompanied only by the unique noise of a monstrous piston engine in unison with two jets and, depending on his mood, a fog of smoke underneath him.

Display pilots are an odd lot - they all know each other and respectfully will spectate and clap at the right times and seem to pay attention when the other pilots are displaying. When Rich is displaying, however, the entire lot immediately come from wherever the tea and cake is and just stand, often open mouthed, gawping at the sky as their friend does stuff that no one else thought possible, or indeed thought to do in the first place. Most people, actually nobody, thinks to strap jet engines to an already absurdly powerful aircraft.

So we, of course, had to have him back. We wanted to, you told us to. So expect to see Rich hanging about, probably at the top of a giant plume of smoke, both days.