Something else to give the museum whinges and moaners to complain about. The DH9A is now on a pole.
Our Aircraft Team of Volunteers have been busy bees today, cleaning our DH9a in Hangar 1, where it will be centrepiece of the Attack area of our ‘RAF: The First 100 Years’ exhibition
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Brian
Thursday 15th February
What better way to start the day than walking through the visitors center to be greeted by a Mk.XIV Spitfire diving down from the west for a five minute display over the airfield. What was even better was that after landing and parking up by the gate by the tower G-SPIT fired up again and we had another five minutes of a Rolls-Royce Griffon growling over the airfield. When the fun and games ended the Spit was parked in 3 hangar. At 2 hangar, there was some war bird movements but it was just ARCo shuffling around some of their fleet. On entering hangar 5, I had a flash back to the summer and a big white tent on the hangar base. I thought the museum was having another art installation with black plastic screening around the nose of the Victor. It’s to protect the public from the paint stripping that’s about to start. In AirSpace the Typhoon was being set up for a film shoot that was taking place later in the day. Early afternoon and amongst the GA visitors was a very nice looking Waco dating from 1932 and later in the afternoon, Beaver/G-EVMK went up for what I believe was it’s second flight. I missed the first. In the order taken.
Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC.
Brian
Wednesday 7th February
The Museum’s new visitor site transport was being put through its paces. Have to be careful not to get run over by the site transport, again, as it’s all electric and very silent. You can’t hear it coming. Along with a couple of GA visitors there were two helicopters that called in for fuel. The white Cabri G2 was on pipe line duty and the Squirrel HT1 will probably be on its last visit as the Cobham contract come to an end this year. In the order taken
Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC.
Brian
Thursday 25th January
A quiet day at Duxford. ‘Blade 1’ had taken part in a corporate event in AirSpace and flew off around mid-day. Many thanks to Joe for hangar access to EP122 and outside amongst the GA arrivals and departures, the Boultbee two-seat Spitfire was taking advantage of the blue sky and sunshine with crew training. The BBMF Chipmunk was out on a compass swing and TFC had their T.20 Sea Fury on the jet pan for another engine run. In the order taken.
Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC.
Brian
January 16th
My take on the days events. In the order taken.
Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC.
Brian
Friday 12th January
My take on the days entertainment. In the order taken and with wall to wall cloud, it was a very flat light for decent photographic conditions.
Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC.
Brian
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