From what I can recall (without checking the EXIF data) I started on 100ASA upto the Hurricane, by which time I was up to 400ASA. For the “Edwardians” I had to go all the way up to 1600ASA.

Just a few more from what can only be described as a “Magical Place” …..

…. and then the light started to go!

I think it was actually dark by now ….

It was sunday, and if I could find my leads I would play my video soundtrack back to you so you could equally cringe, I would have thought that the commentary was written for both days so you must have had either serious earache or a badly extended coughing and sneezing fit, it would appear that no one else was seriously listening to what exactly was being said.

I was there on the Saturday with a group of friends & can’t have been the only one that heard it as there were quite a few raised eyebrows between us all. 🙁

I do realise that these are pretty much all combat aeroplanes & as such they are designed with such things in mind & I’d agree with Pete Truman ….

“I know that most of the a/c we all come to see and love are designed to be killing machines, the Lancaster has probably more notches on it’s wings than most, but to make a silly commentary about an on going conflict thats very contraversial, costing lives on both sides, and whether you support it or not, was not very tactful to say the least.”

There’ll NEVER be a jet performing at Duxford …….

D’oh!

Seriously though, perhaps a little “Simpson’s”?

The female commentator could’ve been Lisa Simpson, with the crew of the F15 being Kennedy (wonder if he was having a sly cigarette out of the window?!?) and the back seat “Whizzo” being (by the sound of it) one Captain Star Wars!

Colonials, don’t you just love ’em!

(that should stir it up a bit! – perhaps I should get my coat)

Don’t worry Pete, I kind of agree with you. In years gone by we’d have had a full list of participants & the pages of this hallowed forum would’ve been rife with comment, speculation & excited “chatter” about the forthcoming event.

This year does seem a little, well, different; I don’t know if it’s because of a collective “holding of breath” as regards “Operation Bolero II” or what, but there is something different.

Can’t quite put me finger on it. Any road up I’ll be there Saturday or Sunday, weather depending (that’s as to which day I do go)

ttfn

BBMF Lancaster transiting across Hoddesdon (Croydon – Old Warden)
She looked gorgeous with the bright sunlight glinting on her new paint!