Friendly Foes Above The Falls–quick report

~Wiping the drool off my keyboard~ Great photos everyone, thanks 🙂

Merlinmagic, it looks as though you found yourself some Hurricane pilots notes then! 🙂

To MikeJ, and the others, who assisted me in that endeavour many thanks. I’ll scratch a few words about the airshow, and post here, once I become ‘de-jetlagged’.

MM

Bleedin’ell, that’s the way to trump the crowd! I’m just sick that I missed the chance to see 3579 take to the air, but your photos are so splendid, it’s almost like seeing it come thru the screen… truly well done, Eric, you fortunate b*st*rd. 🙂

And no, I’m not jealous, nosiree, not in the slightest… 😉

Lynn

Magnificent!

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Brilliant photo Airic. Words don’t do it justice. 🙂

Truly a ‘Mickey Mouse’ Air Force.

I think ‘old WaltD’ indirectly paid for a fair chunk of it.

If that is the first time all three have been photographed A-A together, Ed Russell must be a pretty proud man.

Mark

‘ain’t the 109 a dumpy & lumpy lookin’ thing next to the others?

Speechless!…
Wonderful pictures of a great collection. Three of the most famous fighters EVER in formation. ooooh i bet that sounded sweeeeeeeet :D:D:D:D

Wow!!

Very nice Eric!!!

Mark12

I have just returned to the Sceptred Isle from whence the water cascades somewhat. Verily thou art a master of the ‘double entendre’!

MM

MM
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Mark

Mark12

I have just returned to the Sceptred Isle from whence the water cascades somewhat. Verily thou art a master of the ‘double entendre’!

MM

Fantastic photos 🙂

Airic

Superb stuff. You almost got the Falls in on the last one.

It looks like it was a wonderful weekend, did Ed get the Lancaster finished in the hangar ?? 😉

Wonderful stuff mate

I can only add to that last comment too Peter 😉 ,

WOW!!!!

WOW!!!!

WOW!!!!

😮 And WOW!!!! 😮

AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL, AND MIND ALTERING SHOT’S!!!!! 🙂

They have captured the essence of 1940 for me……………

The Knight’s of the Air, on their trusted mount’s 😎 .

😮 Is that Adolf Galland in the E-4, as it gave me a flash in the back of my mind, of Mr last in his trade mark White’s back then(almost chill like :rolleyes: ).

And yes, same goe’s for the other shot’s,

That could be J.J. in the Spit, and D.B. in the Hurra 😀 .

Eric, YOU are a magician mate, Thank’s for taking me on your Tardis oh time lord 🙂 .

I have alway’s been grateful that we had Buchon’s, As the B of B movie could never have been made without them.

But it stop’s about there I’m afraid :dev2: .

The Merlin nose job has just never done anything for me at all,
I love the B of B movie it’s a true classic, but still every time I watch it, the Buchon’s still grate on me.

I still live in hope one day, that the B of B movie could remade without the Ugly and inaccurate Buchon’s, I don’t want them all to dissapear, but if enough D.B.’s can be found and rebuilt, give them ALL a good D.B. nose job.

It’s been long overdue, but is slowly starting to happen 😎 .

As for the new B of B movie.

We need GOOD actor’s, one’s who could do as good as the original cast(if that’s possible at all.)

We seem to have enough Hurra’s and Spit’s for it now, and now some more real looking 109’s are getting about 😎 .

Now to work on getting some of the other plane’s up and about again, such as the bomber’s, might be a problem, just how many are airworthy now day’s I’m not sure :confused: .

Be great to have a real screaming Stuka or 2 aswell, and a few 110’s 😎 .

If we hold off on the film a few more year’s, this could happen(wishful thinking, but it just might).

Great thread guy’s, get the mod’s to sticky it so it stay’s here for awhile :rolleyes: .

(p.s, I knew it was a rebuilt original, I just like diggin Daz)

Wow!!

Hey guys, sorry for holding out for so long. They just revived me after shooting the fabulous Russell Trio. I have to say it was one of the highlights of my life and an extreme privilege to shoot these aircraft. A special thanks goes to John Romain, Alan Walker, Walter Eichhorn, Ed Russell, Frank Schaufler and photoplane pilot Kent Beckham. My website will be updated every day with pics but my time right now is at a premium. I just added a 109 page tonight. Tomorrow the Hurricane if I can get the time.

Just some of the images I took on Sunday morning.

Happy Landings,

Eric

Yes, Eric does some very very nice work!!

For glorious air to airs of this event see AIRIC’s website.

http://www.airic.ca/html/friendly_foes.html

Mark

Fantastic, just fantastic. Thanks very much for posting these.

Maarvin

Hi all–

The Great War Flying Museum has two S.E.5as, C-FQGM and C-GRJC. QGM is one of the scaled-down versions with the small flat-four engine; RJC, seen in Mike’s photo, is a beautiful and very convincing-looking fullsize SE originally powered with a re-geared Ford V6 and now, I’m told, with a Ranger six like the museum’s D.VII. Both SEs, the D.VII, the Nieuport 28 and the recently-completed Sopwith Strutter were at Niagara.

Mr Russell’s Messerschmitt (ex-David Price collection) isn’t a converted Hispano, but a restored Bf109E-4. Must say it was almost dreamlike, seeing and hearing the Emil in action…and reading the Canadian civil registration under the stabilizer. Not something I’d so much as hoped to see! BTW I have to concur that there’s just “something” about the Buchon, too. Wonder if we’ll ever see a Buchon (in EdA livery, of course) airborne at a show alongside the Emil…anything seems possible lately!

S.

Nah