You gotta love the English weather. A week of glorious sunshine leading up to the show, then on the day low cloud and drizzle all morning. Being Shuttleworth it tried to clear up in time for the display, but the resulting thunderstorm was spectacular. The weather played havoc with the display and sadly a number of visiting acts had to cancel due to the weather. Those that made it were warmly appreciated though.
Its nice opening the hangar doors and finding one of these!
There was some flying before the show, Peter Holloway took the Tomtit aloft for his first flight in it.
The restoration of the Living Van is progressing, there has been a lot of work put into it over the winter, it still doesnt provide tea though
D-Day striped groundcrew put on a display
You cant put the Jeep Bofors the horse!
Turning the Merlin on the Sea Hurricane through several blades to oil the engine.
Seafire start
Naval Formation flypast (please place the word Sea in from of the Gladiator for the purposes of this flypast)
Trainers flypast and display
The PT22 duo keep getting better
Tutor
The Rotaries put on an excellent display, the Triplane in particular getting put through its paces
By: Manonthefence - 9th June 2010 at 08:57
Thanks chaps
The only other airworthy Glad is at Duxford with TFC. Have a look on their website for the aircraft history.
By: mike currill - 9th June 2010 at 07:35
Nice. Your FAA shot set me thinking. I was under the impression there was a Sea Gladiator airworthy in the UK or is it wishful thinking?
By: SEMAE - 8th June 2010 at 07:17
Great pics again. Thanks for posting.
Is there any possibility of the Dak coming to another show for a landing?
Great show.
Cheers
Martin
By: GliderSpit - 8th June 2010 at 05:41
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
By: Bjorn - 7th June 2010 at 22:12
Thank you Nick!
I like the personal touch of your photos, brilliant!
I see that a few rays of sun found their way to the Mustangs on the last photo.
/Björn
Edit: Oh, sea Gladiators were called Naumachiarii 😉 Would have been a cool Gloster type name…
By: Manonthefence - 7th June 2010 at 21:53
Logo anyone?
Peter Teichman came with his P40, still looking good in its movie colours
A new display was the Piper Cub duo, one of the aircraft was active on D-Day. An excellent display sneaking up behind the trees. An often forgotten D-Day aircraft
Someones happy!
‘Dave Evans flew in Maurice Hammond’s P51 “Janie”, delayed by the weather but here nonetheless. Dave then met up with Alistair Jay in Ferocious Frankie out of Duxford and put on a superb pairs display sadly cut short by the thunderstorm at the end. Quite simply brilliant.
For those of you stuck in the office on a Monday after the show, think yourselves lucky. The Engineers spent the day draining rainwater out of the aircraft and drying them off before cleaning them ready for the next show (which is on 19th June by the way). I want a new job!
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