What a picture Moggy’! Can’t get more atmospheric than that – wonderful.:)

Originally posted by SteveYoung
Stevieb, great shot of that Breitling formation. It always amazes me how tight they manage to keep it, despite flying four (three in this case) very disimilar types. The sign of some very switched on aviators…

And their leader being 73/74 years old.

Guzzineil

Thought that was you on the 10:30 Rapide, nice to meet you:D

Both Rapides were up in formation early evening and we were lucky to be offered seats – perks of the job? Superb.:D

Joe

Yes, they ran all four on the Shak’ at least twice each day although they had been having over-heating problems on, I believe, No 4 having blown a hose on Thursday. She looks far, far better than last year as the guys have been putting in a lot of hard work on her.

If today is anything to go by it should be superb. The Electra and DC6 will be doing spray passes – should be interesting with a cross wind onto the crowd. Sounds were superb. Enjoy it but give a thought for the poor bvggers getting sunburnt to give you a good time.:o

Philo

The reason the Lancaster will not be there is that the BBMF required a 100m display line/crowd line seperation. The CAA require 75m and Coventry have made it 85m. It was not considered worth changing for just a maximum of three aircraft.

neilly

If you want more than one picture, upload them to a corner of your web space – I beleive all service providers give some – and then use the IMG option in the box above Your Reply: box.

Nice Mossie, is it the Brian Taylor plan? When my Wellington is a little more advanced I’ll put a pic of that on.

I can’t remember the differences between a C152 and the C150, but we regularly did a minimum of 3 rotations when I was doing my PPL (C150) many years ago. As I have posted somewhere else on this forum, we used to do rolls, loops, wing-overs 😀 etc on the way back to the aerodrome – I had a good instrutor who was also the CFI.

Moggy

The wing is in the right place but the third wheel that is at the wrong end.:rolleyes:

Bren’

Don’t worry about the 152, just go and enjoy yourself 😀 , at 15/16 you have plenty of time to fly something more exotic, its us old codgers that are running out of time:(

Hi all

ICAO definition.

Aerodrome: Defined area of land or water used for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft.

Collins Dictionary defines:

Airport: Landing and taking-off area for civil aircraft, usually with surfaced runways and aircraft maintenance and passenger facilities.

Airfield: A landing and taking-off area usually with permenant buildings.

Airstrip/Landing strip: A cleared area for the landing and taking off of aircraft; runway.

As you can see the word aerodrome is far from being lost. It is the official term used by ICAO, CAA etc..

A real aeroplane would never use an airport, only strips and fields, with the odd excursion into an aerodrome.

Willow

Microlites (even flexwings) and gliders are aeroplanes. balloons are aircraft. Helicopters? – enough said.