Each flight is around 30 minutes, to avoid overwhelming the student with far too much new information. It was great to see so much under one roof, from brand-new Cirrus to the turbine VL-3 and all the latest avionics and pilot equipment. Like the first official set photo from the movie, the new poster is all about the many armors of Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr. In the build up to see Tony Stark crack wise, and blast off in new armor, Disney has been releasing new images and now the first poster for the flick.

During the seminar, it was clear that he was knowledgeable, and shared concepts not normally found in the POH. Sid has become quite a hit with the women, who all seem to want to take ‘selfies’ with him – he never gets a minute to himself now he has achieved celebrity status!Based on the familiarisation and test flight we did the previous day, I perform my final approach at the Optimum Stabilised Approach Speed of 50mph (we determined this speed the day before) down into ground-effect.

The central grass area by the hangars is mostly kept for trike flyers – quite right too as they have worked the hardest getting here, but then I am rather biased. It was all kicking off when we got back from the beach, throngs of jolly revellers had congregated and were enjoying the live music while washing down wedges of pizza with pints of the local brew.

For more information, please visit our athletes page or head to the latest information from the World Champs team. After expert marshalling by the many volunteers who give their time to help out free of charge (including Henry, who is no spring chicken but who has become a real fixture at Sandown) we taxied directly to the fuel pump, which is card operated so fuel is always available. The grass at Duxford is bumpy in places, and my feet dance along on the pedals as Andy makes his rapid rudder inputs. The ‘something like a Cub’ turned out to be an Auster Arrow, one of only six airworthy Arrows in the world.