Read on and you will see that the indicated date of issue for the CAA permit under which it will fly is 19/7
What G-INFO does suggest is that the Permit is due to be renewed on 19th July. Let’s hope some strings can be pulled for an earlier release.
Oh good, so my eyes weren’t deceiving me. It will be something different for the display circuit, assuming air displays continue albeit modified.
If my beady old eyes don’t deceive me there was a Fury in the front of the hangar wearing a dark grey topsides/yellow undersides scheme at the front of the hangar on Friday. But it was grey day and I was in an aircraft taxiing out so don’t quote me.
In fairness I seem to remember an RN Phantom doing something similar at a Lee-on-Solent airshow many years ago. My 2 year old son cried for 20 minutes afterwards due to the noise but he was coming down with chickenpox so I blamed that.
I went flying yesterday morning, nil wind, tempersture of 24 degrees and the Wonderplane was notably sluggish on take-off. I learnt to fly in Nairobi (altitude of 5,500 feet) and density altitude was always a factor, sometimes reaching 8,000 feet, which made a Cessna 150 puff a bit. Perhaps Sunday’s incident had an element of that in it i.e.first hot day of the year plus light winds with a density altitude of more than the nominal strip height of 210 feet. Just a thought.
Or Duxford? Nothing much seems to have been done to it since it was moved to hangar 5 and now the Victor has got the go-ahead it must have moved a long way down the queue for restoration.
Just for info, the 4-ship Classic Wings Tiger Moth formation was for a French vodka commercial.
Almost certainly it was the 3 Chipmunk formation from Denmark that attended the Old Warden meeting.
Thanks Wyvern. That’s the one I was thinking about.
Thanks for posting Paul, a really interesting set of photographs. I live about 10 miles away and it was interesting to see the snow scenes as we only had one light covering this year and that only lasted about 2 hours. The shot of the dispersed B-17 in the drive up to Wimpole Hall was the first I’d seen and I assume the Ju 88 was flown over from Duxford to educate the “cousins”? Does anybody have the location of the memorial to the USAAF’s time at Bassingbourn?
8 Chipmunks flying East to West and return near Baldock at 1615. Presumably prior to Old Warden on Sunday.
No, but the implication is that perhaps they could be purchased with the proceeds of the Wildcat sale.
MJ 627 has dual controls.
Looks like a good day out. I don’t think we’d be allowed a low pass like the Avenger in the UK after last year’s accident at Shoreham! Nice to see the Jetstream still earning it’s keep. Thanks for posting.