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June 18, 2015 at 12:54 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #884310

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Nice warm, sunny day here at Duxford. The Super Sabre is parked outside where the F-15 used to be, the Grace Spitfire is outside and fueled and the ARCo two seat Spitfire has flown off. Lots of GA visitors and a Barkeston Tutor on approach and two Army AirCorps Squirrel helicopters parked on the jet pan but the moaners and complainerswill still look and still complain.

Haste to burst your bubble Wings43 but non of my photos are HDR.

Brian

June 18, 2015 at 10:54 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #884407

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Now this is just getting silly.

Had you checked you would see that the Photographic section is for help and advice on photographic matters and air show photos non of which Duxford and other museums fall into.

Brian

June 18, 2015 at 8:09 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #884668

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I’m not one of those people who get upset or throw their toys out of the pram over comments posted about photographs I splash over the tinternet. They are the ones who have a problem, not me. They are my photographs, taken for my enjoyment, ‘over-processed’ :p :p :p the way I like 😀 and which I just happen to share with other people.

At least I’m out there getting photographs and not sitting behind a key board criticising other people for what they are doing.

No longer tired and fully refreshed after a good nights sleep and soon heading of for another visit to Duxford

Brian

June 17, 2015 at 10:01 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #884984

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great to see after some of the over-processed stuff on this thread.

If you don’t like the look then don’t look. Simples

Brian

June 15, 2015 at 9:40 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #886831

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Posted on the IWM AAM website.

Here’s an update on when the aircraft will be moving back into the American Air Museum if you were thinking of planning a visit to IWM Duxford to coincide with the movement of a particular aircraft.

As part of the redevelopment project, the aircraft and vehicles were removed from the American Air Museum and relocated in other buildings on site in April and May. They are now being condition-checked and, where necessary, conserved before being re-displayed in the American Air Museum when it re-opens in Spring 2016.

Here is the provisional timetable for when the aircraft will be on the move. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee these timings and they may change, for example, if the weather on a particular day means we are unable to move the aircraft safely. We are also not able to take requests to move aircraft or halt the work for photography, due to our limited schedule.

24 August: A-10A from the Conservation in Action hangar
25 August: F-15A from the Conservation in Action hangar
26 August: Spad XIII replica from the Conservation in Action hangar
27 August: PT-17 from the Conservation in Action hangar
28 August: F-4J from the Air and Sea exhibition; F-111E from Conservation in Action hangar
31 August: AT-6 from the Conservation Hall in AirSpace
1 September: B-25J from the Conservation in Action hangar
3 September: P-51D from the Conservation Hall in AirSpace
7 September: P-47D from the Conservation in Action hangar
10 September: C-47A from the Conservation Hall in AirSpace
16 September: B-29A from the jet pan near AirSpace
17 September: UH-1H and SR-71A from Conservation Hall in AirSpace
18 September: U-2C from Conservation Hall in AirSpace
22 September: B-24 from Conservation Hall in AirSpace
23 September: B-17G from Conservation Hall in AirSpace

We will be putting out a daily update from 24 August through to 23 September 2015 via Twitter. Follow us @I_W_M using the hashtag #AAMmoves.

http://www.americanairmuseum.com

Brian

June 15, 2015 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #887112

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During the morning the Duxford based Bulldog and Mustang IV/’Sharkmouth’ both returned from air show duty at RAF Cosford at the weekend and we had Gunship 1 & 2, the Apache Display Team, fly over head on their way home to Wattisham from Cosford as well. During the morning, TFC had their Spitfire Mk.I/X4650 out on the airfield for an engine run and in the afternoon the Gladiator was also out for a spin of the prop.

Brian

June 11, 2015 at 11:18 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #890930

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Full stop landings.

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June 11, 2015 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #891077

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11Jun15

A bit of a Mustang day at Duxford. Mustang IV/’Sharkmouth’ had a training flight with plenty of circuits off the grass before departing south for the weekend. It’s appearing at RAF Cosford for their air show on Sunday and will be back at Duxford on Monday. A little bit later ‘Ferocious Frankie’ went up for a handling flight to the north with a bit of aerobatics over the airfield on its return and will be appearing at the RAF Northolt Open Day on Saturday.

Brian

June 10, 2015 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Old warden In The Sunshine – 07Jun15 #457359

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Sounds like an electric lawn mower. 😀

Brian

June 9, 2015 at 8:49 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #892627

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A few from my Bimble today.

Brian

June 6, 2015 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #894813

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My take on the days visit 😀

Brian

June 4, 2015 at 7:40 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #896453

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Piccies in the link – cambridge-news.co.uk/

World War Two Spitfire takes to the skies from Duxford Imperial War Museum

70 years after it battled the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, this classic Spitfire is still going strong in the skies above Cambridgeshire.

The vintage one-seater fighter is operated by Classic Wings, who have run passenger flights from IWM Duxford for 25 years.

Yesterday the family firm celebrated its landmark anniversary with a public demonstration of its aerial prowess.

Events manager Terri Butcher told the News: “We were celebrating the fact that Classic Wings has been flying for 25 years at IWM.

“We started off with a little Cessna 206 doing pleasure flights, and throughout the years we have grown.

“We have carried thousands of passengers, some 7,500 last year, from all over the world; people come to us from across the UK, Australia, Japan.

“We maintain our own aircraft, refurbish and rebuild them, and have all our own engineers.”

The firm invited special guests to fly wing-to-wing with the Spitfire in an eight-seater Dragon Rapide, which was used for reconnaissance during the war.

Mrs Butcher said: “We have one Spitfire that we use here, based at Duxford, and we’ve just recently granted approval for a two-seater, so we can take passengers up in it.

“It has been so many people’s dream to fly in a Spitfire, and it’s quite unusual for a company to have done this, and been flying for the public for so many years.”

The firm offers tours above Cambridge, Ely and Newmarket, as well as into London.

Over the years its aircraft have featured in films and TV programmes including Foyle’s War, Britain from Above, Doctor Who and The One Show.

For more about the firm, see http://www.classic-wings.co.uk

Brian

June 3, 2015 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #896874

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03Jun15

Classic Wings were have a bit of a ‘Do’ today. Their war bird fleet were lined up on the grass in front of the tower and a bit later Classic Wings staff and pilots had a group photo in front of the Silver Rapide before the two Rapides took off, followed by the OFMC Spitfire/MH434, for a Wing to Wings photo shoot. The Spitfire then did a couple of minutes of aerobatics before landing. In hangar 2 the TFC Nimrod was having a bit of TLC as was the Catalina. There was a bit of a DH Moth event on at Old Warden today but I didn’t have to go there to see a rather nice coloured DH.80A Puss Moth which visited Duxford for a couple of hours and a Red Bull called in for a spot of fuel.

Brian

June 3, 2015 at 7:52 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #897216

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The Vulcan World Tour 😉 DCW mentioned above in post #1271 will apparently only take place if –

£3,000 per location will secure sufficient funding to cover these sorties.

Just 600 people at each location donating £5 will be all it needs. Where would you like to help XH558?

Planned routes for tour;

Saturday 27th June

Newark
East Midlands
Cosford
Woodford
Carlisle
East Fortune
Sunderland
Elvington
Doncaster return

Sunday 28th June

Bruntingthorpe
Coventry
Wellesbourne
Hendon
Duxford
Southend
Norwich
Marham
Waddington
Doncaster return

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/671/82/Locations-for-V-Force-Tour.html

Brian

June 1, 2015 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Is this picture genuine ? #898513

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Excellent Photoshopping in that they actually added foliage to the trees on the left and cut the grass and opened the gates behind the phone box for the Sally-B shot compared to the other photo.:sleeping:

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