Duxford flying has ground to a halt this week, with the resurfacing of the hard runway. It is scheduled to take till Wednesday to complete. Because the grass runway and hard runway are counted as one the CAA has stated that neither runway can be used.
I don’t know how this affects warbird operators and whether they can use unlicensed airfields, I would have thought they could…. still it will be a quiet weekend I would think.
By: Steve Bond - 28th October 2003 at 10:11
Paul Day’s display was much more energetic, lower and closer to the crowd than BBMF allow. Don’t get me wrong though, it was beautifully and carefully flown, and Paul did not start until after he had taken the aircraft well away from the circuit to give the engine and systems a good check out.
By: dhfan - 28th October 2003 at 05:37
Was there a Gnat flying out of North Weald on Saturday, 2:30 ish?
Thought at first it was a Hunter but then saw what looked like Gnat undercart come done.
Couldn’t look properly as I was doing 70 mph (of course:)) down the M11 and it seemed advisable to concentrate on the road!
By: Mark V - 27th October 2003 at 16:42
In what way was it “less restrictive” Steve – just interested. I do not have a problem with it (Paul Day being one of the worlds most experienced Spitfire pilots) 🙂
By: Moggy C - 27th October 2003 at 14:04
Originally posted by Steve Bond
He was clearly enjoying flying in a somewhat less restrictive way than the BBMF rules allowed him to do!
Oooh!
There are people here who won’t approve :rolleyes:
Moggy
By: Steve Bond - 27th October 2003 at 13:48
Yes it was indeed Paul Day flying the Spitfire at East Kirkby on Saturday, and what a great display it was too. He was clearly enjoying flying in a somewhat less restrictive way than the BBMF rules allowed him to do!
By: Manonthefence - 27th October 2003 at 12:19
I do believe that The Major is in the process or Retiring.
Best of British Luck to him I say.
By: YakRider - 27th October 2003 at 12:14
I believe it was Squadron Leader Paul Day, who had just finished his tour as O/C BBMF. Nice that he has still got a Spitfire to fly on his days off!
YR
By: Mark V - 27th October 2003 at 11:45
Nice pictures Yakrider – thanks for posting. Any idea who flew the Spitfire T9?
By: YakRider - 27th October 2003 at 10:33
And remembering those wo didn’t make it back….
By: YakRider - 27th October 2003 at 10:29
No problem. Glad you liked them!
Here’s one of the Bayliss Spitfire Tr9 at East Kirkby on Saturday. What a cracking display that was!
YR
By: Chipmunk Carol - 27th October 2003 at 10:06
Brilliant YakRider!
With your permission, I would like to forward these to the pilots.
Thanks, Janie
By: YakRider - 27th October 2003 at 10:02
One of the Venom landing too.
By: YakRider - 27th October 2003 at 10:01
Saw the Mustangs departingto the east as we were coming in past Ongar. Here is a pic of the Hunter landing. We’d just got back from our flight to Beachy Head and Rochester in the Bulldog, so had a grandstand view. It was a great day too.
YR
By: met24 - 26th October 2003 at 20:38
Re: Re: Photos
Originally posted by Janie
I’ll buy the negatives.
I’ll swap them 😉
By: Chipmunk Carol - 26th October 2003 at 20:35
Re: Photos
Originally posted by met24
shots of Janie (not saying which one!)
I’ll buy the negatives.
By: met24 - 26th October 2003 at 20:09
Photos
One or two (static) shots of Janie (not saying which one!) and BBD, but on this odd stuff that says Fuji on the tin … so it’ll be some time before I get them back 🙁
By: Chipmunk Carol - 26th October 2003 at 20:04
Originally posted by YakRider
Yes, but some wag at the Squadron pointed out that it is aligned with North Weald Cemetary!
Not a problem. The runway should be predominantly used for northbound landings, I was told today. So there is no need to overfly the cemetry.
And wasn’t it a great day at North Weald? Did anyone get any pics?
By: Learning_Slowly - 24th October 2003 at 15:29
No I been to Norwich today Ashley… we can’t fly at the moment but lots of cleaning to do. I maybe down tomorrow to clean a tiger or to as North Weald is on Sunday. East kirkby is far to far to go on my little own, my Rover would never make it 🙂
By: Chipmunk Carol - 24th October 2003 at 11:36
Originally posted by YakRider
Yes, but some wag at the Squadron pointed out that it is aligned with North Weald Cemetary!YR
Some of them are old wartime pilots. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it. Hopefully, they will not write too many letters of complaint anyway! It’s a grave matter.
By: met24 - 24th October 2003 at 11:07
The deadsides of the 05/23 circuits at Cambridge take you over a cemetary 🙂
M
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