Duxford Thursday 7th November. Good to see some activity today after the rain of the last few days. The ARCo TR9 was flying in this morning and the improved weather found a few visiting aircraft including 2 American built Classic types.
G-CCCA DX 7/11/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BULO DX 7/11/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
D-EEVY DX 7/11/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
It was also pleasing to see P.51 Ferocious Frankie with its prop back on this morning and indeed flying this afternoon albeit from a distance !
G-BTCD DX 7/11/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Excellent news for all fans of these Miles aircraft. Below a few shots from my collection which may be of interest.
At Gatwick pre 1950
G-AKDK GATWICK pre 1950 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
At White Waltham (date u/k)
G-AKDK White Waltham by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
At Westwood near Peterborough – date u/k
G-AKDK at Westwood near Pboro by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
2 pictures at unidentified locations.
G-AKDK by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AKDK by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
At Elstree in the 1960s
G-AKDK Elstree by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
Finally stored at unknown location awaiting an uncertain future ( sometimes dreams come true !!!!)
G-AKDK by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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A few further pictures of Brigands from the 1950s – the first 3 of which are at Cambridge. ( These have appeared before on previous FP threads but are worth repeating)
RH765 Cambridge by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
RH765 Cambridge by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
VS837 Cambridge by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Duxford Thursday 24/10/13
Todays visit found the Shackleton (and Victor )having been ejected from AirSpace for presumably this weekends car event.
dx3 DX 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
The Grace Spitfire local flying
G-LFIX DX 24/10/13. by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-LFIX DX 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. the TFC Hellcat out for further engine runs
G-BTCC DX 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
plus a visiting Chipmunk WD331/G-BXDH of the RAE Farnborough AC
G-…….. DX 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr.
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Old Warden 24/10/13 –Part 2
Also noted today was visiting Army Apache ZJ195
ZJ195 OW 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. whilst in the maintenance blister hangar the recently arrived Sopwith Camel was being worked on.
G-BZSC Camel OW 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
as was the Comet Racer
G- ACSS OW 24/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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DX today
–time for me to take cover
G-BEDF DX 23/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
from the inside looking out —
G-BEDF DX 23/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-BEDF DX 23/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Some interesting news from G-INFO:
G-WCME Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ex N585FM
G-WCMI Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ex N750FM
G-WCMO Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ex Bu 55404
All registered 27-9-13 to Bygone Engineering Ltd.Something for everyone!
Interestingly G-WCME is one of the old CAF aircraft which was flown as N681S. Recorded as crashing last in 2003 although apparently rebuilt and sold. Seen below in 2001
N681S in 2001 now G-WCME by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
also G-WCMI was previously flown in the USA as N12371 – it was apparently involved in fatal crashed on 14/10/83 and was then sold. Seen below in 1983 possibly just before its accident (photo by John Kerr)
N12371 in 10/83 now G-WCMI by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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[QUOTE=DCW;2078880]Duxford Friday 18th October:
This morning saw the first engine run from the TFC Hellcat since 2008. The R-2800 started promptly and sounded great during a short first run.
Many congratulations to all at TFC for their achievement.
.. and reviewing their success as the sun almost broke thru briefly !!
G-BTCC reviewing 1st start ? by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
The Jet Ranger was more work , than loading people on GTM. G-AGSH was flown up by one of the Russavia pilots to be put in an Auction in the 1980’s.
Dave
I have it at DX on 10/8/84 for the Christies Auction that took place on the 13th August. Seen below in hangar 2.
G-AGSH DX 10/8/84 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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Nice warm Autumn sunshine at Duxford today.
We are use to the 3 based Dragon Rapides local flying but a visiting specimen is more of a rarity so it was nice to see The Old Warden based example this afternoon.
G-AGSH DX 7/10/13. by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AGSH DX 17/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AGSH DX 117/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
some of the based aircraft were active
BM597. by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-AKIF DX 17/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
G-TFCC DX 17/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. whilst Frankie was returned to hangar 3 minus its prop.
G-BTCD DX 17/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. and the departure of the blister hangar is imminent.
ex Hangar DX 17/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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A few more general views of DX this morning with plenty of RR ‘power albeit not actually attached to a warbird.
Roller3 DX 15/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
Roller5 DX 15/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
… whilst inside preparation for the car auction was underway.
XH648 DX 15/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
Shackleton DX 15/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. finally one of Duxfords ‘historic’ structures is being dismantled and moved to another site. Originally used by the Cambridge University Gliding Club when the airfield was gradually reopening for use in the 1970s and most recently by Classic Wings .
Demo1 DX 15/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
and as seen in the 1970s before the days of the Superhanger (and subsequently AirSpace) with the CUGC Super Cub used for glider towing.
G-BAFT DX mid 70s by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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The P.40B of TFC was also out for a brief taxy round on the grass in the rain !
G-CDWH DX 11/10/13 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
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