A few from Hucknall

You must have walked right past me then, i was moved on frm being half way up the track to by the flexiwing microlight.

Huh?

Im going to crawl out of my box on this one- “apart from bits falling off and engine failure”? The latter is the specific reason why people are kept off the end of the runway! I suppose that the stewards were also at fault, but that doesnt make it right. Do the words “Rouen” and “Spitfire” mean anything to you? I was at Hucknall on Saturday, and yes, the crossing point was far down the runway, but if anything had gone wrong, the pilot would have needed every foot of that runway, this certainly wouldnt have been helped by you being stood in the middle of it. Im sure i’m not the only person who thinks this.

Dean

Indeed, as it took off.
I was with a group of people waiting to cross at the holding point whilst the Hurricane displayed. Once he’d displayed and landed we were told to cross over, and about half way across the Spit suddenly appeared so I stopped and grabbed the shots. He was airborne well before getting to the crossing point (the crossing point was at the very top end on an unusable section of the concrete runway) and his undercart was already retracted as he appeared over the crest so there was no danger other than bits falling off or engine failure. Apart from stopping for the shots I was doing as instructed, as were several others. Once he went over I continued towards the car park area and watched from the car park side of the airfield. His display was superb by the way, one of the best I’ve seen (helped by being closer to the run in point than the actual official crowd area).

Cheers.

the overheads of the Rolls Royce Spit were taken from the main concrete runway as it was taking off (much to the discontent of the stewards, but it was too good an opportunity to miss – apologies chaps!).

You stood on the runway as the Spitfire took off?

Ollie,

I was using a 70-300mm on a Canon 30D. The 30D sensor gives 1.6x so at full stretch it’s the equivalent of 480mm.
The pics are crops and not full frame, shot in RAW format and tweaked in photoshop. I was standing between the parked Hurricane (That pic is with a Canon G7) and the parked Extra 300 for most of the shots, although the overheads of the Rolls Royce Spit were taken from the main concrete runway as it was taking off (much to the discontent of the stewards, but it was too good an opportunity to miss – apologies chaps!). The other view of the Rolls Royce Spit was from the car park side of the main runway.
Hope this helps.

Cheers.

What size lens where you using, i was up by the parked aircraft and apart from the BBMF both me and a freind of mine where struggling and he was using a 300mm prime and a 1.4x tc.

I think Eric Marsh and Gary Ferriman, a couple of local pilots. The Cavendish Hotel is at Baslow in Derbyshire.

Cheers.

Nice piccies, whose is the aerobatic duo, not seen them before.