Rather than going to Legends yet again, I fancied something a bit different and spent the weekend of 11/12th July at Breighton Airfield in Yorkshire for the Real Aero Co ‘Summer Bash’. It was the Real Aero’s 20th Anniversary and the Jungmann’s 75th Anniversary Fly-in. Dozens of light aircraft flew in across the weekend, including a Jungmann and Jungmeister from Switzerland. Great weather, a very warm and friendly atmosphere and a very enjoyable weekend all round.
On Sunday, Maurice Hammond brought his collection of two P-51’s, PT-17 and T-6 into the airfield for the day. This gave my ‘Follow Me’ jeep its first proper use; leading the P-51’s to their dispersal! The photos below show the arrival, taxi in, photo shoot and departure.
Many thanks to Maurice for allowing us the photo opportunity with the Jeep.
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd July 2009 at 17:30
Cheers.
As for tweaking the pics – Colour saturation was reduced a bit, focus softened slightly, noise added, and the red Gamma channel increased a bit as Kodak films of the time were usually red sensetive and often overexposed, leaving pictures with much more reds and browns than you would normally get. Each pic often needs a slightly different tweak so I always do them one by one rather than batch adjusting.
Steve
By: mike currill - 22nd July 2009 at 12:08
Them’s seriously good pics mate. Love the way you’ve converted some of them to the US colour shots of the period, how was that done?
By: Simon Peel - 22nd July 2009 at 05:42
Sunday looked good I should have stayed over and not bothered with Ledgends, but iI would hav missed the Butcher Bird.
Peelie:cool:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3716525086_4777a986a6_b.jpg
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st July 2009 at 17:24
PM me your email address and I’ll email the 3008×2000 pixel version.
Steve
By: Rlangham - 21st July 2009 at 14:57
Do you have a larger copy of the photo of Auster G-ABIW taking off?
Cheers
By: Yak 11 Fan - 20th July 2009 at 20:39
That is one scary looking picture
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th July 2009 at 18:55
Just found this one…..
‘Reservoir Pilots’ ?
By: Mada Gaskar - 20th July 2009 at 17:07
Thanks for posting those!! 😀
By: piston power! - 17th July 2009 at 23:25
But annual membership is cheaper than some airshow ticket prices – and if you take close friends and family with you it’s cheaper still as they can be admitted free as guests. Works for me!
Then it’s worth looking into as breighton is only 1hr drive tops and has made for a v good weekend in the past.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th July 2009 at 21:28
Just looking through my pics again, I realised I did have some of the T-6.
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th July 2009 at 18:35
My dad joined just before the event and said the weekend was worth every penny!
By: davski - 17th July 2009 at 18:33
But annual membership is cheaper than some airshow ticket prices – and if you take close friends and family with you it’s cheaper still as they can be admitted free as guests. Works for me!
By: piston power! - 17th July 2009 at 15:49
Breighton airshows are good just a shame you have to be a member to enter the field it puts many off from joining because your tied.
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 10:08
Auster and Ryan. That’s all for now, until I dig out the Texan and Stearman pics from Debach, taken I think in 2006. I’ll probably start a new thread for those.
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 10:05
Always liked the Chipmunk too, ever since building an Airfix one hundreds of years ago!
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 10:02
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By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 10:00
Jungmann and Jungmeister that flew in from Switzerland, and the Breighton Jungmeister.
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 09:54
Tiger
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 09:52
Maggie
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th July 2009 at 09:45
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