Opening of the gallery is controlled by the IWM so if it’s locked it’s because they haven’t opened it!

Locked yesterday but I didn’t come away empty handed:D

https://www.facebook.com/duxfordfotogallery/photos/a.1874565096146046.1073741828.1874539072815315/1964816763787545/?type=3&theater

Brian

More here

https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfDuxford/photos/pcb.1605654659492706/1605652812826224/?type=3&theater

Brian

Bloody big pitot static tube that. :highly_amused::highly_amused:

Brian

It could also be used for corporate events and even quilt shows to give Pen Pusher some new shots!

Not unless they build a balcony to look down from 😀

AUTUMN QUILT FESTIVAL
DUXFORD
Imperial War Museum
Airspace Conservation Hall
Duxford
Cambridgeshire
CB22 4QR
27 October to 29 October 2017
10:00am – 4:30pm (4:00pm on Sunday)

http://www.grosvenorshows.co.uk/view_show.php?ID=9

Brian

although Northolt, up the road, is an active airfield, the listed part is, I think, just the Polish memorial which is actually outside the airfield boundary.

There are three buildings Listed at RAF Northolt.

Three buildings at the heart of operations during the Second World War at RAF Northolt have been listed at Grade II

The buildings comprise a C-type hangar, former Squadron Watch office, and former ‘Z’ Sector Operations Block. The hangar was used throughout the Second World War to house Churchill’s personal aircraft in which he flew to many important meetings of the Allied leaders. The Watch office which also served as the Aircraft Readiness room during the Second World War had an undisputed role in the Battle of Britain and was the building from which RAF Northolt’s pilots were scrambled. The Operations Block was the prototype for the ‘Dowding System,’ a method of communication allowing the command chain to communicate to intercept enemy aircraft, the first such system in the world. It was recently named the Sir Keith Park Building in honour of the man who developed the air defence system with Lord Dowding and then ‘fought it’ as the 11 Group commander – the busiest Group throughout the Battle.

https://www.raf.mod.uk/rafnortholt/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=1B8CBA81-5056-A318-A87A03440EF101D4

Brian

ARCo have another Spitfire

https://www.facebook.com/aircraftrestorationcompany/posts/849588051864530

Brian

Thursday 5th October

A very blustery and very quiet, apart from hundreds of school kids who would rather be somewhere else, day at Duxford. There were only two aircraft movements while I was there. Dove/G-OPLC parked up next to the MiG, which is still on the jet pan, and the Duxford Aviation Society VC-10 was re-positioned for filming for a British Airways advert I believe. Period vehicles has made the journey up from Brooklands Museum for a bit of set dressing.

Sony a6300 + Sony PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS lens

Brian