29Aug15
With the forecast for rain over Sunday/Monday, well it is a Bank Holiday, I took advantage of the sunshine on Saturday. By mid-afternoon when the war birds came out to play, off on various air show duties, it was wall to wall cloud and a rain front passing to the south-west with a few spots hitting Duxford. Classic Wings were having one of their ‘Fly With A Spitfire’ events with Spitfire HF.IX/TA805 from Biggin Hill and when Spitfire TR.IXc/PV202 returned we had a five minute display over the airfield.
Brian
27Aug15
With no Met Office weather warnings in place, it still rained though, I had my first visit of the week to Duxford so a bit of catch up for me. The F-15 was all by itself in the American Air Museum but by mid morning, slightly later than planned because of a rain front passing through, it was joined by the Stearman and Spad XIII replica. Due to there being a bit of room in hangar 5 now there were a couple of new photo opportunities with a brace of Thunderbolts and the B-25. Mid-day and as it was trying to rain again, the Duxford based Bulldog left for airshow duty at Clacton followed a short time later the RAF display Tutor which flew in just after the museum had opened. Amongst the GA visitors, and there were quite a few, an RAF Chinook touched down on the main runway and parked for a minute or two before heading off to Wyton. Mid-afternoon and B-17/Sally-B fired up with its usual smoke screen across the airfield and headed off to the coast for the Clacton show and I finally got a nearly decent shot of the B-17/B-29 together.
Brian
15Aug15
For a non air show Saturday, there was a lot of war bird activity at Duxford today. It started first thing with an impromptu photo shoot, with many thanks to Alister, Joe and Peter, with P-51/’Ferocious Frankie’ and the B-29. ‘Frankie’ went up for a short display over the airfield early afternoon and then departed for the south coast on air show duty later on. As we were finishing the photo shoot, Spitfire formation called in and the Duxford Big(ish) Wing hove into view with seven Spitfires that had been stranded up north due to the weather following the Humberside Adlertag event on Thursday. After the formation pass, they split into two groups and six landed with the seventh going I know not where. After a quick turn around the Boultbee and some of the ARCo based planes and pilots then went south, again on air show duty. The HAC Spitfire Mk.Vb/BM597 went off to Old Warden in the afternoon for their Flying Proms night and the Mk.I/N3200 and Mk.IX/MH434 were also due at Old Warden but hadn’t departed by the time I left. The Fighter Collection P-40C also went for a short test flight.
Brian
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