Paul J

Paul,

I was idly looking around flightsim.com wondering where I could look to find out what 'VC' means in file downloads, when I came across your little picture of a Gnat skimming the grass. It is a picture I know well as it is on the back of the 'Red Arrows' ten-year anniversary magazine which I bought at Biggin Hill Airshow, UK, in 1975. I have just taken it off the bookshelf and am looking at it now. Is that where you got the picture from? Inside the magazine is a similar shot in which, judging from the camera angle, the photographer appears to have been lying on the grass with the Gnat about to pass directly overhead at, if it is possible, an even lower height than the first picture. If you are interested I can scan and email it to you. I saw the Red Arrows' superb displays several times in the UK but am unlikely to see them again as I now live in New Zealand.

By coincidence, I have just downloaded a Gnat for FS2004 with Red Arrows livery.

Happy flying!