Do you want to first introduce who you are and why you're here?
I'm Colin Finlay. I'm from Kilmarnock and I'm here to look at the planes.
What's so interesting about the planes?
I think just the noise and the excitement of the planes. It's just a thrill. I'de rather be up flying the dam things but I'm afraid these days are gone for me now.
And what have you seen today of note?
There's a Mirage 2000 French Airforce planes, and two German Tornadoes did a fly past, there's a VC10 refuelling aircraft and there's been a Nimrod has done two fly pasts as well, and there's the full squadron of the locally based Tornadoes have landed doing circus and bumps as they did so.
How does that scale up to an average day here? Is this a good day or a bad day?
This is a good day. This is quite a busy day. There's a special exercise on down the East Coast and these planes are here for the exercise - some of them, most of them are.
I assume you knew that in advance?
Yes - aye. That's the reason we're here.
Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us about your link with this place?
I'm Jim Deans from Kilmarnock and again I'm just up to see the aircraft that are here.
How long have you been interested in this subject?
Over twenty years.
Did you build many airfixes?
No. Believe it or not, I didn't build any models. I've just been interested in the aeroplanes. My dad was interested in it and he kind of brought me on into it.
And finally, do you want to introduce yourself:
Oh, eh, no thanks.
Is this you wee boy?
It is, yes.
Do you actually like being brought to these things?
Yes.
Do you think it's quite good fun watching the planes?
I always get models of these things.
And finally, would you like to introduce yourself?
James McMann from Kenoway(?) in Fife. I've been interested in aeroplanes since I first started working. My first job was at Lucars aerodrome.
Oh right. What were you doing?
Apprentice painter in these days. And since then I've just kept up going to airshows here, there and everywhere.
Would you have liked to have flown them?
Yes. Again, I joined, well in my day you had to do National Service, but I didn't do National Service, I did an extra year in the air force and I never saw an aeroplane. We were on a maintenance unit for motor vehicles and that's as near as I got to aeroplanes then.
No.
Nothing?
No.
Not even a skeleton or anything?
No.
Just say your name again and if you could answer the question, if you've seen or had any experience of second sight?
My name's Jim Deans and I have had an experience of that. It was actually a ghost of a living person that I saw. I was maybe twelve or thirteen years old in my house at Kilmarnock. I was up the stairs working on one of the back bedrooms looking through some slides. My mother came in and she said to me I was to go down the stairs so I followed her out the room, she went into the bedroom upstairs, I went down the stairs and went into the living room and my mum was down the stairs watching the television and then just at that all the slides that were in the cupboard that I'de been in up the stairs, fell out onto the floor, so there was certainly something in that. What it was I don't know. That's about the only thing I can say.
Do you want to say your name and tell us if you've ever had any experience of second sight?
It's Colin Finlay again and I can't say I've ever had any of those kind of experiences. Thank God.
Do you think they exist?
They probably do actually, yes. Yes.
Thanks very much.
Mr McQueen said he did not believe in second sight; that he never met with any well attested instances; and if he should, he should impute them to chance; because all that pretend to that quality often fail in their predictions, though they take a great scope, and sometimes interpret literally, sometimes figuritively, so as to suit the events.
Boswell from 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides'
