Pictures: Bob Jones Memorial Air Show 2016

The Bob Jones Memorial Air Show at Welshpool Airport took place on the same day as the Cosford Air Show, and the two even shared a fly-past by the famous Red Arrows – or Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team.

Pilot and event press officer Martin Evans said the day was a success, despite a couple of aircraft coming in from the west being unable to get to the show because of the conditions.

He said: "We could see the weather was coming in, we just didn't know when it would be.

"By the time the air show started it had moved in to west Wales and some of the aircraft there were swamped and couldn't get off the ground."

He said as a result the Raven Display Team, flying kit-built Vans RV4s and RV8s, could not make it to the show, and neither could the last flying Westland Whirlwind HAR Mark 10 RAF rescue helicopter.

He said: "But they were the only two, all the rest of the displays went ahead and in fact the Breitling Wing Walkers gave us an extra 10 minutes or so to make up for it, and so did Lauren Richardson in her Pitts Special."

The Breitling team are the world's only aerobatic formation wing-walking team and they wowed the crowds with daring old-fashioned acts of bravery, while 28-year-old Richardson, one of the top aerobatic display pilots in the UK, took her iconic modified biplane for a spin.

Also at the show was a Messerschmitt BF109 from World War Two, one of the infamous front-line fighters of the Luftwaffe that was seen on-screen in the 1968 film The Battle of Britain, as well as an RAF Typhoon.

But one of the highlights was the Red Arrows fly-past which went ahead as planned, following their appearance at Cosford earlier, travelling in the opposite direction to the wet weather.

"I expect Cosford got the bad weather about 15 minutes after us," Mr Evans said.

"But nobody would have gone home disappointed, I think.

"All in all it was a good day with some great displays.

"The turnout was good and we will get a tally of numbers later in the week – and the bus service on the park and ride worked really well," he said.

"We had no hold-ups at all on the roads, it all went like clockwork," he said.

The Welshpool Air Show was renamed in memory of pilot and airport owner Bob Jones in 2012, after his death in a plane crash on Long Mountain nearby at the age of 60.

Mr Jones founded both the show and Mid Wales Airport, where it is based.