Those who witnessed the scene – as I did – speak of it with awe.
And thankfully there remains grainy footage of the legendary feat to prove it really happened (if you look on YouTube).
I speak of the Duke of Richmond’s very first Goodwood Revival in September 1998 when a spectacular piece of derring-do set the tone for nearly three decades of West Sussex fun to follow, as former RAF fighter pilot Ray Hanna opened proceedings with an extremely low pass down the race track in his Spitfire.
By ‘low’ I mean that the New Zealander flew the length of the Goodwood
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