Last weekend saw yet more ecstatic spectator reactions to XH558’s appearances, this time at the Bournemouth Air Festival and Shoreham Airshow on both Saturday and Sunday.

Both events reported record crowds, with an estimated 730,000 people lining the seafront at Bournemouth across both days. Adding to this, the spectator numbers at Shoreham, and an estimate of those who saw XH558 during her transit following the South Coast between the two venues, I reckon that XH558 was seen by over one million people last weekend, a new record for VTST. So far, this year XH558 has now been seen by about 2.5 million people at events around the UK, not counting all those who have looked skywards to see her in transit around the country.