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| World War Two Flight Formation over Bridgnorth by Adam Rutter |
Friday, May 9th , 2025
I started writing a short story this afternoon. The theme is “Everybody stood”. I have based my story on four men standing on a hill, watching an array of hot air balloons hanging in the air. The four main characters are RAF pilots, although that has not been highlighted in the story yet. The story coincides with the eightieth anniversary of VE Day in which the nation is celebrating this week. Coincidentally enough, Dad saw ten WW2 aeroplanes flying over our house while he was in the garden.
The aeroplanes
were flying in formation. I watched the fleet heading in a south-easterly
direction through the window at the bottom of the stairs. The humming noises
faded as the fleet slid behind the trees in the distance. When I went inside
the kitchen, I heard the humming noises again. This time, I looked through the
landing window, and saw the fleet coming back. Their formation had split into
twos, threes and fours. Each squadron circled the skies, flying in various
directions. I captured every passing fleet with my phone camera, to document
the VE Day celebrations. The planes headed north once the wartime display was
over.
Editor’s Note
If you want to see more planes this year’s Cosford Air Show
is on Sunday 8th June
5 comments:
My comment from the other day seems to be missing but I hope you carry this one on 🙂 I saw the planes too, a great sight for VE day.
I’m now looking forward to hearing your story Adam.
I will send my story to you for this blog.
Well-described Adam and I look forward to your story. It will be very topical. Could you slightly rearrange the sentence where you see the planes through the window because, for me, I read it as if the planes were coming through the window?
It’s the sentence where you see the planes through the window at the bottom of the stairs.
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