Flying AHOY Shuttleworth May 7th 2017

That’s all the BBMF can do unfortunately with out the PDA I’m sure Parky would have liked to have put on a full display for those that were there but he couldn’t!

I hope the BBMF Spit did not fly all the way to Bedfordshire just to perform those four, distant, barely banked passes. Maybe they were just having a whizz round to dry the black primer!

Perhaps the Flight Standing orders are pretty rigid about what is permitted, but the later performance of JR in the MK1 Spit was a welcome reminder of how a fighter aircraft is more usually flown.

Thanks for posting.
Nice to see the Hurricane back on its “feet” again.
I had the good fortune to visit Old Warden last summer (from Canada).
It is truly a unique and almost magical place. Marvelous site and collection.

A friend of mine has a DH60 and a Hornet Moth, he has also flown many other DH types.
He said “oh, I’d give it all up for a Leopard Moth”.
‘CMA certainly looks immaculate.

Andy

Been to many an airshow, but my first visit to Old Warden and I really enjoyed the intimate atmosphere and what great flying.

Really good to see other types flown than I normally see on the circuit at other airshows, and a crowd with a good mix of anorak types and Sunday day trippers…never seen so many picnic tables laid out.

All in all a very enjoyable day :eagerness:

That could well have been the Nanchang that departed Popham a little earlier in the day? A couple of lovely rolls over the airfield on departure…

Re the Mew Gull over Henley-on-Thames that would have been Cap-10 G-BXFE and Nanchang G-BVVG who were flying pretty close together.

The Leopard Moth was re flown towards the end of last year after an extensive restoration I believe on behalf of her current owner Peter Vacher. This was possibly her first ‘public appearance’ since then. Possibly not flown prior to that since the 1980s ?

Duxman

How gorgeous is that Leopard?

I know ‘CMA has been around a while, but has she had a recent makeover / re-cover?

Stunning image Duxman!

Lovely Day and aircraft. No doubt many pictures will be posted on the AirShow Forum section.

TE311 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

G-ACMAa by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Duxman

Flikr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/

Spotted over Henley on Thames 5:30pm today was what looked like a Mew Gull and very thin green aircraft, in tight formation ?

Goodbye from Old Warden!

iPhone battery at 12%.

Weather still good but cooling down now; wind picking-up too.

Formation.

Correct.

Black Spit. It’s in primer….

Terrible photography…..or black Spitfire?

Silver plane…..silver sky!

Opening ‘act’!

This is working better than I expected.