Sunday 22May16
Lots of visitors at Duxford today but probably had something to do with the Aston Martin owners club event that had taken over the western end of the museum site. I stayed away but there was an Aston Martin car along with an Extra 300L belonging to the Blades parked outside AirSpace. The Extra didn’t stay there long as it was soon moved to the Jet Pan to stop the visitors mauling it to pieces. It was the turn of The Fighter Collection to have a training day with the Harvard doing check flights and the Hawk-75 and Corsair doing aerobatics. Photos in the order they were taken.
Sony Alpha A77II Digital SLT Camera + Tamron 150-600mm f5-6.3 SP Di VC USD lens.
Brian
Friday 20th May
Many thanks to everyone at ARCo and all the pilots for all the flying and aerobatics today and keeping us all entertained. The Blenheim flew two formations with a pair of Harvard’s in the morning and a solo display but the highlight was in the afternoon with a formation display with three Spitfires and very nice it was to. Between ARCo and the Classic Wings ‘Fly in a Spitfire’ flights, TFC flew the P-40C again with some aerobatics thrown in this time.
Sony Alpha A77II Digital SLT Camera + Sony 70-400mm f4-5.6 G SSM Lens.
Brian
19May16
Photos in the order they were taken.
Sony Alpha A77II Digital SLT Camera + Tamron 150-600mm f5-6.3 SP Di VC USD lens.
Brian
17May16
A busy-ish Tuesday at Duxford with the Classic wings blue Harvard and one of their Rapides doing training flights as was the Catalina which was up and down all day. Highlight was the Yak-3, who’s engine finally behaved itself, and after a test flight to the north we had a bit of aerobatics on its return. The Bronco flew out yesterday but returned and parked up next to G-PIGY again. Photography wise, and in the order they were taken, it was a bit naff as on Sunday the clouds rolled in at the most inopportune moments.
Sony Alpha A6300 CSC + Sony FE 24-240mm f3.5-6.3 OSS Lens
Brian
15May16
My take on the day’s activities. 😀
Sony Alpha A77II Digital SLT Camera + Sony 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G SSM Lens
Brian
12May16
After being stuck inside for a couple of day’s because of rain, it was nice to get out in the sunshine again even though the day did start off with a heavy haze but cleared away to nice blue sky in the afternoon. The ARCo two-seat Spitfire was up and down all day on training flights and the Yak 3M was out on the grass for an engine run before being taken for a tie down run at the 06 end of the runway. Duxford heliport was in operation again during the afternoon with a couple of Griffin HT.1 helicopters from the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, that arrived and departed separately. As I was waiting for the second Griffin to depart, a flight of 4 Army Air Corps Lynx Mk.9 helicopters flew over which I believe were the last 4 helicopters to leave Dishforth en-route to their new base at Middle Wallop. Late afternoon and Skyvan/G-PIGY arrived with a friend and parked up on the jet pan for the night.
Photos in the order they were taken with a Sony Alpha A6300 Compact Systems Camera with a Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC
Brian
07May16
As I’m off to Old Warden on Sunday, I thought I’d best get some practice in using the Tamron 150-600mm lens. There was a Duxford Bonus Day, half price landing/entrance fees, for Vans aircraft so plenty of targets to practice panning on and enough war birds flying to happily snap away at. It was hazy with high cloud defusing the light but warm with it. In the order they were taken first at the Tank Bank in the morning and the M11 end in the afternoon.
Brian
30Apr16
Well it turned into a better Saturday at Duxford than I hoped for. The Catalina flew a training flight and then loaded up and took off to spend the weekend at the Abingdon Air Show. Classic Wings were operating their ‘Fly in a Spitfire’ flights again with the Biggin Hill two-seater and the TFC Mk.V Spitfire headed off to France to join the Hawk 75 that left on Thursday. The Museum/ARCo Mk.1 Spitfire along with the T.9 headed off to Newmarket for about half an hour and we had a very nice display from the Duxford based Rapide and the HAC Hurricane and Spitfire flew with a couple of display’s from each as well. The Blenheim had flown in the morning but went up again in the afternoon with a display thrown in. Photos in the order they were taken.
Brian
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