Hell and gone from the beautiful, sunny photos everyone posted during Legends, isn’t it? Looks like the collection is definitely tucked in for the winter, waiting for warmer weather to come out and play….
Mark
Yeah, I had imagined before setting off that Duxford would be a bit lifeless in the closed season (it is a few years since I have been there on a non airshow day)- but I can really reccomend going sometime around now for a variety of reasons…
1)You have the place just about to yourself 🙂
2)Walking out onto the airfield, looking over the misty apron and runway, I felt much more aware of the historical context, not that Legends does’nt have an electric atmoshphere, but amongst all of the crowds and stalls it is hard to mentally picture the Duxford of 1940 (or the late sixties via a certain DVD 😉 )
3)I have never spent so long engrossed in the goings on in the Fighter Collection hangar (though I guess I am used to most of its contents being arranged on the flightline/in the sky). To see the Airacobra stripped of most of its panels was fascinating.
I had some really good pictures from that hangar but they were accidentally wiped from the internal memory on my camera 🙁
4) Everything is a little mixed up there at the moment, so there are some interesting photo opportunities- particularly the Polikarpov and Cosmic Wind from the walkway beside the ‘Jessie Lumb’ lifeboat.
All in all I can really reccomend a visit, I am bound to go back next week -excuse, some of the pictures I lost were an integral part of my university project!!! 🙂
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