Flying Crackers

Not so much Sun and Fun

On Thursday 31st March, Lakeland Airport, host of the Sun & Fun Air Show was hit by a tornado with winds up to 95 mph.

Although the main exhibit area was unscatched some others were not so lucky, with some having minor dings and some being totalled: corpses of wrecked aircraft littering the ground. In spite of some fairly severe damage - for example a Ran 2 ended up landing on the Piper Aircraft park - the organisers were determined that the show would go on and helped exhibitors and visitors with a major over-night clear up....