We had great weather for the air show on Thursday, the downside was that it was naff for photography, combination of facing into the sun, a display line that would be closer if it was in France and haze.
However these are the best of a really poor bunch from the show.
You’ll have to imagine the commentary.
The day starts early with the arrival of the egg beaters for the static display in the Peoples Park, unfortunately operational requirements had reduced the participants to one Puma and a Bell 412 from Holland
The Falcons opened the display in earnest by throwing themselves out of the back of the BBMF’s Dak:-
Which then did its own bit
A26 and B25 followed on from the Dak, they in turn were followed by Pink Lady, which put on a spirited and some what low display
The Bronco and then the T28 were next,
and then the Sabre and Meteor
Blue Eagles, Nimrod II, Tutor and Tucano were all hazy dots in the sky from my vantage point
The Hawk came a bit closer
By: EN830 - 16th September 2007 at 09:16
Sorry, no shots of their display routine worth posting here.
By: Manston Airport - 16th September 2007 at 00:38
Some fantastic shots there Ian on a very sad day indeed:( like the 1st T.1 shot and who owns the Meteor is it AA? and have you got any shots off the Blue Island airline with its Trislander Islander and Jetstream 31?
James
By: EN830 - 15th September 2007 at 23:12
One that I missed earlier, the arrival of the Morane Saulnier MS760 Paris on Thursday morning.
By: EN830 - 15th September 2007 at 21:48
On Friday I managed to break away from family commitments to shoot a few rolls of film at the airport. Departures happened quite quickly after the static display closed mid morning.
One of the first was the DC6, what a great noise and lovely colour scheme, lets hope they can keep it for a while longer.
The hawk display team where next out
In the meantime the JU52, Fortress, An2 and Meteor gave flights around the island to the local RAFA volunteers.
The F86 did its bit for global warming and really showed its carbon footprint
The A26 soon followed on.
and finally the DC3 returned to the Island from an undisclosed sortie in order to meet up with the fighters and return to the UK.
By: EN830 - 15th September 2007 at 21:42
The Blades went trough their display, all dots in the sky from where I was, following on from them were the Buchon, Hurricane and JU52. The Hurricane and Buchon especially put on a great display, though for the purposes of this post you’ll have ot imagine it. The JU52 lumbered around the bay slowly, I managed a three course meal with coffee and liquors during its display 🙂
The AN2 did its customary slow display at one point appearing to stop in mid air, however as the commentator correctly said the Rapide beach landing was superb and brought back memories to many of the times before the airport was opened at St Peters in 1937, when beach landings were a regular event.
Next up were the BBMF’s fighters, for some reason the Lancaster was not available this year.
BlueCircle airlines displayed their Trislander, Islander and Jetstream before the Typhoon took centre stage, I must admit it was something of a show stopper, many of the great unwashed who congregated close to where I was perched thought it was the hi-light. Though I did hear one guy say, “I didn’t think the Vulcan was coming this year”.
For me the next act was special and very pretty in its KLM colours.
The DC6 (A better shot later !!!)
The show closed with the usual Red Arrow display with a slight addition:-
All in all a good show for the punters, not so good for those wishing to take photographs, the commentary was good as well and much more informed than in previous years.
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September 15, 2007 at 9:31 pm