Duxford Spitfires

About six months, the first five will go by quite quickly and the last one will take an age! 😀

Thanks Niall,

Now the long wait for the first show of 2005. 🙁

Septic

Lovely shots Septic, it was bloody cold though.

Maybe you could ask the passenger 😉 🙂 :dev2:

Thanks janie, Yak 11 Fan. no one seemed to know yesterday which Yak it was.

Sadly that’s the problem with Yak 11’s nobody has a clue, hence partly why they are such an under rated aircraft by all those who have yet to experience one….

Thanks Maarvin. 🙂

Septic.

Fantastic shots, very atmospheric indeed.

Regards.

Maarvin

Thanks janie, Yak 11 Fan. no one seemed to know yesterday which Yak it was.

Here’s another photo for the album.

Septic.

It’s G-BZMY, was at North Weald for a while, been in the UK since 2000

I don’t think the owner used to take it to too many shows. It was at Le Touquet last year though.

Glad to be of help, whats the story with the YAk, I don’t think I see it before unless its a repaint.

Septic.

Septic: Thanks for the Yak11 pic. Lucky lucky passenger!

Last two.

A departing Yak 11 ID ? and Seafury Post show airtest.

Septic.

Thanks Darren, the cold is the one aspect of Duxford that I would change.

The following photos make up the bulk of the show.

Septic.

Craking stuff Gary. It was a bit cold out there!

Disapointing?

A world class P-51 display – yes I thought it was A1.

3 Merlin Spitfires, A Shackleton’s worth of Griffon Spitfires, (Total class – a repeat of the Flying Legends effort perhaps? Back by popular demand?)

A completely unique formation of Seahawk, F-86A, and T bird, the Sea Fury (albeit brief, but safe) which the RNHF guys have sweated blood to bring to us at all this year, a bunch of Buckers and a Storch flying in a wind which was more than enough, a 30 year restoration new on the scene (Rapide G-AGJG) asnd a bunch of forumites to argue with/about/freeze alongside of…

No. Clearly dull. Should have stayed at home.

~CHING~ Reality check! 😀

Definitely the highlight of the show for me personally,as was the fact that I spoke to Muriel Pavlow in hangar 4.

However………..

It was my first Duxford,and I thought the show a tad disappointing really.I did a 300 mile round trip from Yorkshire for it,and thought the Elvington show was better,with more aircraft available,including my personal favourite PA474.

I have to say though,you guys on here have taken some fantastic pictures,which are a credit to you.It was difficult to know which thread to attach my comments to.

Finally.I did think the exit from the car park was a farce,as there was no-one there to direct traffic,resulting in cars just doing as they pleased,unlike when you entered,when there were more personnel than you could shake a stick at.

Ken.

I’d never have believed that my attempt at an artistic Spitfire shot would have turned into a debate about fasteners! Now where did I put those rivet photos.

Septic.

Sorry, Bruce and Mark12, I was trying to make a joke but they tend to misfire at that time of night!

They arent Dzus fasteners; they are a weird thing called a Fairey Fastener – you see them on Griffon Spitfires, and there are some on Sea Furies as well. Horrible things!

Anyway, they dont line up when you tighten them – they arent supposed to.

Bruce

Bruce,

I always thought these Griffon cowling fasteners were called ‘Amal fasteners’. Made and developed by the same company that made carburettors for ‘British Motorbikes pre and post WWII.

What say you?

Mark