Another angle on the now assembled Camel
N6812 Camel assembled DX 7/2/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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DX 6.2.14 – The sound of a Packard Merlin at 9.30am this morning saw Spitfire T9 SM520 in the skies over Duxford for 15 mins. presumably on an airtest.
SM520 DX 6/2/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Old Warden Tuesday 28th January.
A brief visit this morning found winter maintenance underway on the Lysander and Avro 504 whilst the assembly of the Sopwith Camel and Spitfire continue.
E3273 Avro 504 OW 28/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BSZC Camel OW 28/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BSZC Came OW 28/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
AR501 OW 28/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Duxford – Thursday 23rd January.
In between the heavy rain this morning and the hail and rain of late afternoon the sky cleared with some pleasant sunshine and aircraft activity.
A very welcome visitor from its North Norfolk base was DH90 Dragonfly G-AEDU.
G-AEDU DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AEDU DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AEDU DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AEDU DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AEDU DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
A Local Harvard was out doing circuits
G-BUKY DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BUKY DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
— Not exactly historic but none the less an interesting visitor was Sikorsky S-76C helicopter of the Queens Helicopter Flight presumably in connection with the visit to Cambridge today of Prince Edward / the Earl of Wessex.
G-XXEB DX 23/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
— closer image of the Royal Crest ( with AirSpace reflection ! )
Royal crest with AirSpace !! by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Duxford — Tuesday 21st January
At a rather foggy DX this morning the only noted movement had been the Shackleton, which is now back in AirSpace.
XF798 Shackleton DX 21/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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A few additional pictures of the Harvard action today
h1 DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
h5 DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
h8 DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
h10 DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BUKY DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BJST DX 14/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Been very quiet at Duxford today apart from Frankie going for a test flight an four Air Cadet Grob Vigilant’s dropping in on a cross country flight.
Brian
As Pen Pusher indicates back to a ‘normal’ day at DX.
A few pictures to start the year with now DX is open fully again.
Frankie departs on her air test
G-BTCD DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
… plus a practice display
G-BTCD DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BTCD DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BTCD DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. plus upsetting a few of the ‘locals’ ?
Birds Dx 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. meanwhile the quartet of visiting Air Cadet Vigilants were parked on the apron
Vigilantes DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
elsewhere the F15 is now in Hangar 5
F15 DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
and the Spitfire 1 has been wrapped up awaiting departure
R6985 DX 9/1/14 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Good news, IWM Duxford will be fully open to the public, staff, volunteers and site users from Thursday 9 January.
🙂 Lobster
That’s good news although the IWM website has not yet been updated and notices at the site still says closed to visitors but the that seems to have been lifted for visiting expensive helicopters as the photo below indicates taken in the last hour ! (The first movement noted for 2014 ?)
Perhaps now an opportunity to show some more pictures of G-AEDB at DX in the 70/80s ?
late 1974
G-AEDB Dx late 1974 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
August/September 1975
G-AEDB Aug/Sept 75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
7/5/78
G-AEDB DX 7/5/78 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AEDB DX 7/5/78 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
early 1981
G-AEDB DX early 81 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
April/May 1982
G-AEDB DX Apr/May 82 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Mark
Very interesting to read your early experiences. Below is a picture taken at Lt Staughton on the 13th May 1978 ( 4 days before your visit !! ) when I recollect the Rapides new colours may have been shown for the first time during a Colton Aviation fly-in. Again if I remember correctly aircraft were invited that had been painted etc by them.
G-AGTM Lt Staughton 13th May 78 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. and for the record 2 earlier shots of her
at Biggin Hill Air Fair May 1967
G-AGTM BH May 67 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
at Halfpenny Green July 1970
G-AGTM Halfpenny Gn July 70 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
and then subsequently at Duxford in April 1980
G-AGTM DX April 1980 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
Duxman– Flikr — http://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/
With no movements to report so far this year what with the weather and the current closure of DX a rummage thru the archives came across the attached picture of Sally B in 1975 at Duxford , in a strip of negatives not previously scanned. I am sure some will recollect the occasion !! ( more to follow later on that )
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To follow up the image of Sally B, the date was the 24th August 1975 that marked he departure of David Tallichets B.24J N94559 from Duxford (en route to USA via Stansted and Prestwick) which resulted in a formation flypast with the BBMF and the Ormond Haydon-Baillie Sea Fury. We covered the event in the Duxford 2013 thread in March last year with a few colour images but the black and white pictures below have just come to light and not been published before so on this rather wet Saturday morning in the Duxford area they may bring some past memories back.
B.24 N94559 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
BBMF 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
B.24 formation 24/8/75 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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With no movements to report so far this year what with the weather and the current closure of DX a rummage thru the archives came across the attached picture of Sally B in 1975 at Duxford , in a strip of negatives not previously scanned. I am sure some will recollect the occasion !! ( more to follow later on that )
B.17 Sally B by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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