Hi Bill,

Hope we can meet up – perhaps you might know a good hotel or motel close to the airfield. I shall be there both days – trying not to dribble to much when KA114 is flying:)

TTFN,
Neil

Thanks for the comments:)

Now it’s Flying Legends turn. How many pictures do you guys want to see before you get bored? I have rather a large surfeit of pictures. Here’s your starter…………….

TTFN,
Neil

And the next batch…………….

The next 4 pictures are interesting in their own way. the Tonka had been worked on all morning before taking off in the early afternoon with a full payload. It came back nearly an hour later with an undercarriage problem.

A Typhoon was scrambled to go and have a look and see if there was a visible problem.

Everything seemed alright – The Tonka then dumped fuel – all over Lincolnshire:diablo:

Pilot made a perfect landing with no problem.

TTFN,
Neil

Hi All,

I don’t get to go to many full size airshow because I’m mainly doing LMA airshow pictures. However, I managed to get to a couple this year + the Victory Show. Last year I didn’t get to a single ful size show so the last show season I had was 2010 which was pretty good. This year I was a bit disappointed in the displays, from a photographic point of veiw. Far to many figure of 8 turns and aircraft showing the underneath rather than the top of the aircraft – whatever happened to the good old Farnborough pass??? Anyway here’s my first selection from the 2012 Cosford display.

TTFN,
Neil

No safety chutes used in this country on large models – as for the USA or any other country for that matter, I don’t know. Never seen or read anything about the use of safety chutes on large models, but that doesn’t mean they’re not being used, somewhere.

The weight of the Vulcan is right at the maximum top end of the LMA/CAA exemption scheme. However, for its size and weight it literally ‘floats’ off the ground. The wing sections are all actual scale Vulcan chords which probably accounts for this. The model flew beautifully in the strong wind conditions which were around 20mph for most of the day.

Neil