Britain gallery: Team Guinot

Team Guinot, aerial acrobatics display team, at an air show in Clacton-on-Sea flying Boeing

Stearmans. Now known as the Breitling Wingwalkers, the Guinot team shared the flying

display day with the Red Arrows and a flypast of several other types, including a B17 (if I

remember rightly) and a beautifully restored Catalina, which constitutes another picture on

this website. I used to think that 'wing-walking' actually meant folk wandering up and down

the wing whilst in flight, but I was very young at the time! Despite living in the Gosport /

Portsmouth area just after the war, when the skies were still full of Spitfires, Seafires,

Gannets and loads of other types, my Dad would still take me to any available airshows - we

never tired of the spectacle. The best of course was the Farnborough Show, but that was a

rarer treat as we didn't have a car at the time.

Team Guinot, aerial acrobatics display team, at an air show in Clacton-on-Sea flying Boeing

Stearmans. Now known as the Breitling Wingwalkers, the Guinot team shared the flying display day

with the Red Arrows and a flypast of several other types, including a B17 (if I remember rightly) and

a beautifully restored Catalina, which constitutes another picture on this website. I used to think that

'wing-walking' actually meant folk wandering up and down the wing whilst in flight, but I was very

young at the time! Despite living in the Gosport / Portsmouth area just after the war, when the skies

were still full of Spitfires, Seafires, Gannets and loads of other types, my Dad would still take me to

any available airshows - we never tired of the spectacle. The best of course was the Farnborough

Show, but that was a rarer treat as we didn't have a car at the time.

Guinot display