Hey,
I don’t know if anyone of you went to the “Music in the air” last Saturday event but I did for the first time and I was truly amazed by the show.
This took place at Middle Wallop and it’s a mix between a classical music concert and an aerial display. I had never seen anything quite like it before: a brilliant philarmonic orchestra, playing well-known pieces and accompanied at the same time by all sorts of aircrafts and flying machines, delivering incredibly skilled demonstrations, in tune with the music.
The whole thing was precisely timed so that the manoeuvres of the planes followed the music itself and most times, the planes were doing a low pass or a last finish manoeuvre just on the last beat of the music with impeccable precision. Yaks, Sukois, Spitfires, “Sally B” the B17 flying fortress, Apaches, Lynxs, Foot-launch paragliders, parachutes, glider, Microlight, Hot-air balloon… were all part of the show, each performing to a different music.
I don’t have too much time now but I’ll sure upload a few pics later with more details.
If you add the perfect summer evening weather, with a beautiful sunset, a picnic and a bottle of wine, you have what I’d warmly recommend to anyone looking for a great time out… next year now!
Cheers
Steph
By: DazDaMan - 5th August 2004 at 17:48
Ah well, never mind. Still you can post them anyway, I’m sure you’ll get some advice from the other chaps on here if you need it.
By: Steph - 5th August 2004 at 16:55
yes, spitfires!
Sorry Dazdaman but my shots of the spitfires weren’t very good, which really made me cross on the moment but I’m only a newbie on aerial photos 😮
Steph
By: DazDaMan - 5th August 2004 at 14:58
What, no Spitfires?! 😮
By: Steph - 3rd August 2004 at 14:34
Music in the air… Piccies
Hi,
As promised, here are a few shots taken with my digital camera and resized reasonnably. I have discovered that I am not so good at taking pictures of moving aircrafts but hopefully these are decent enough.
1-3: The aerostars, the biggest civilian aerobatic formation team in England, flying 5 Yak 50 and one Yak52. Leader Phil Ansell
4: The famous Sally B B17 flying fortress. The only airworthy exemple in the country.
5: Christian Moullec and his tamed barnacle geese!
6-7: The matadors: Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones, each flying a Sukhoi 26, who won the formation category of the World Grand Prix aerobatic competition last February.
8: Massed military helicopters from the school of army aviation at Middle Wallop.
9: Sunset
10: Balloon glow
Enjoy
Steph
By: brycheiniog - 2nd August 2004 at 22:51
There were too many people about to get a decent shot of the balloons unfortunatly 🙁 The Microlight and geese were very good. The pilot seemed to be able to change the formation by giving the birds hand signals!
Cheers
Jonathan
By: merlin70 - 2nd August 2004 at 22:36
Lovely shots of the balloons. Unusual to see a sqn of geese in formation with a microlight.
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