Spitfire anniversary airshow

Interesting to see a sudden change of ownership on one of the spitfires since the first link to this list. 😉

Guess you will be inside the fence at longlEET, Ollie – cos it’s free!
🙂

No, i payed for a ticket.

Participation list has been up dated:-

Clicky link

Brian

Can’t imagine it without Ray, he was an inherant and irreplaceable part of that event. 🙁

Exactly why i wont return to DX!

Cant wait for Goodwood,

Can’t imagine it without Ray, he was an inherant and irreplaceable part of that event. 🙁

Should be good.

But do I go to DX or take a 30 minute trip across the downs?

It seems they are planning a tribute to Ray Hanna at the Revival on each day as he and his aircraft have been regulars there since the start. 🙂

Cheers

Paul

Cant wait for Goodwood, loved Festival Of Speed & cant wait for the old stuff at the Revival, doubt i’ll ever return to DX.

SPITFIRE ANNIVERSARY SHOW

Hello Everyone

At the 60th Spitfire Annivesary,commemorative baseball caps were made depicting top view silhouettes of two Spits with a roundel between the two.
Some of you may recall them.
Presumably a cap along this line will be offered for this anniversary.
As I am in Canada, this makes it hard to obtain one.
Question , could any of you over in the U.K. attending the show locate me a source for or pick me one up which I would readily send the money for.
I am looking for a good quality commemorative hat not a poor quality baseball cap which are offered at many shows.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Keep’em Flying

Fleet 16b

I’ll look forward to seeing ‘434 at Goodwood. 1st time in 2 years for me!

Should be good.

But do I go to DX or take a 30 minute trip across the downs?

It seems they are planning a tribute to Ray Hanna at the Revival on each day as he and his aircraft have been regulars there since the start. 🙂

Cheers

Paul

Wasn’t there a diamond 16 on the Sunday made up of four 4 ships led by Rod Dean?

I’m happy to stand corrected, the photo proves my memory is getting worse than I thought……. 😮

And yes, get there damned early chaps, or be prepared to get there by walking/cycling/pogosticking, if ’96 show was anything to go by.

Hoping to attend on Sunday, but plans not yet finalised- anyone else from my neck of the woods going…possible chance to car share and ease the congestion perhaps?

Mark ,your losing your grip,
You mean PS915 ,the post mentioned the french XIX.

Bet you can’t see the wood for the trees with Spitfires!!

Lost it ages ago mate 😀

Too many PS’s and too early in the morning. As for you – you are obviously spending far too much time around them :p

I’ll look forward to seeing ‘434 at Goodwood. 1st time in 2 years for me!

I took the sensible precaution of leaving home around 6:15am to get there early (was parked and enjoying a bacon roll by 8:15am) and was lucky to get parked near the Superhangar (as was – now Airspace). Friends who arrived late morning couldn’t even get into the north-side car parks which were chokka, and ended up watching from a field off the Western end of the airfield. I think some people never even got that far, the roads were pretty-near gridlocked for miles in all directions.

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I remember it well, my friends came down from Sheffield and my brother and sister in law from Nottingham on the Friday night.
We had a few beers in the Fox at Finchingfield on Saturday and went for a walk down the river while the girls prepared the barbecue, bad mistake.
When we got back the girls had also over prepared themselves with red wine.
Despite my insistance at leaving at 7:00 the next morning, the Sheffield contingent refused to get out of bed and arranged to meet us on the tank bank later.
We also had bacon butties at 8:15 near the Superhangar and listened to the radio with increasing alarm as the roads started to clog up as early as 9:00, I think that the car parks were full by 11:00.
The Sheffield lot never made it, they had to make a huge detour to avoid the area and went home instead.
I gather that one of the visiting BoB veterans had to walk from Whittlesford Station as the courtesy car couldn’t get through to pick him up.
Could be an idea to cycle in this time.

Shazam.

Enjoy, hate, or express vast indifference as you wish.

From this thread.

Wasn’t there a diamond 16 on the Sunday made up of four 4 ships led by Rod Dean?

I think there was. But then, that was the first time I’d ever seen multiple Spitfires in the air, so the number may have grown in my eyes…

Unfortunately I seem to remember that, despite 14 or so flyers, the most airborne in formation at any one time that day was a diamond nine led by RH in MH434 (I think).
Paul F

Wasn’t there a diamond 16 on the Sunday made up of four 4 ships led by Rod Dean?

Spitfire 60th Anniversary Airshow

the big late 80’s event at Duxford was in 1988, I think there were around 12 Spitfires attending.

There was the Spitfire 60th Anniversary bash at Dx in 1996 (naturally enough), I was there, and seem to remember there were 14 or 15 airworthy examples present, plus a number of the non-airworthy residents were wheeled out onto the flightline to swell the number.

I took the sensible precaution of leaving home around 6:15am to get there early (was parked and enjoying a bacon roll by 8:15am) and was lucky to get parked near the Superhangar (as was – now Airspace). Friends who arrived late morning couldn’t even get into the north-side car parks which were chokka, and ended up watching from a field off the Western end of the airfield. I think some people never even got that far, the roads were pretty-near gridlocked for miles in all directions.

Unfortunately I seem to remember that, despite 14 or so flyers, the most airborne in formation at any one time that day was a diamond nine led by RH in MH434 (I think). There may possibly have been more spits airborne at the same time, but well spread around the circuit. I will have to dig out the video and my photos and check. Was it really ten years ago…

I think that the largest airborne formation achieved that anniversary year was 14 Spitfires together over the Solent at a Southampton seaside-type show?

No doubt someone will correct the above?

Paul F

By my reckoning these are the machines on the current list,

Spitfire II – Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (P7350)
Spitfire V – Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (AB910)
Spitfire V – Spitfire Ltd (JG891)
Spitfire V – Historic Aircraft Collection (BM597)
Spitfire IX – Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (MK356)
Spitfire IX – Royal Netherlands Air Force (MK732)
Spitfire IXT – Anthony Hodgson (PT462)
Spitfire IXT – Maurice Bayliss (MJ627)
Spitfire IXT – Air Leasing (ML407)
Spitfire IXT – Aircraft Restoration Company (PV202 / IAC 161)
Spitfire XI – Hangar 11 (PL965)
Spitfire XIV – Aircraft Restoration Company (RN201)
Spitfire XVI – Spitfire Ltd (TD248)
Spitfire XIX – Rolls Royce (PS853)
Seafire – Kennet Aviation (SX336)

And again by my reckoning this leaves the following airworthy examples in Europe,

MV154 – will be on a tour Eastern Europe
EP120
MH434
MV293
SM845
TA805
PM631 – BBMF
PS915 – BBMF
PS890 – Christophe Jaquard – Dijon, France

I would assume that air leasing is the grace spit as I cant think of any other t9 spit in the country.

Ive noticed peter tiechman’s Mk X1 is not there also.

if all the flyable spits attend then there must be another dozen to add to the list!

Thanks for the list Ratty.

Who are Air Leasing btw?

Or is that a typo perhaps and it is in fact the Grace Spitfire? :confused:

Anyway, good to see PL965 & the Bayliss machine have been invited! 😀

Oh, and PT462 also!

Cheers

Paul

IWM site says that BBMF will be supplying three Spitfires, the other two, this one included presumably have other commitments.

Mark ,your losing your grip,
You mean PS915 ,the post mentioned the french XIX.

Bet you can’t see the wood for the trees with Spitfires!!