the-spring-quilt-festival 😀

Conservation Hall in AirSpace

10am to 4.30pm Friday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm Sunday

Grosvenor Shows’ popular Quilt Festival returns to IWM Duxford with a wide range of stands selling patchwork and quilting supplies.

This is an event hosted at IWM Duxford, but organised by a third party organisation.

Brian

H&H Classic Car Auctions, Duxford – 15th April 2015. 😀

Brian

Their final appearance at the night photo shoot at RAF Northolt on the 5th March. :apologetic:

Brian

Already covered here

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?133764-Temora-CAC-Sabre-to-be-grounded

Brian

Continuing the Blackbird theme –

Former SR-71 Blackbird pilot Colonel Richard Graham returns to IWM Duxford on Sunday 1 March.

At 11am, Colonel Graham will present a talk about his experiences of flying the SR-71 and, specifically, how it compares and contrasts so dramatically with flying other conventional aircraft. Colonel Graham will also share his memories of flying the Lockheed U-2 spy plane, predecessor of the SR-71, and the Douglas F-4 Phantom during combat missions in Vietnam.

The talk will take place in the Marshall Auditorium in AirSpace. Immediately following the talk, there will be an opportunity for book signings.

At 1pm, Colonel Graham will host a walk-around tour of the SR-71 Blackbird that he previously flew from RAF Mildenhall, which is on display in the American Air Museum.

Following the tour, there will be a further opportunity for book signings.

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Brian

30Jan15

Winter snow arrived overnight at Duxford although it did begin to turn to slush a bit as it warmed up a bit during the morning. The TFC Bearcat in hangar 2 is undergoing a bit of winter TLC and the Mk.1a Spitfire/P7380 has been turned into a bit of a convertible. I haven’t seen it for a while but there is an owl resident in hangar 3 and what I hadn’t seen before was that there is a ‘Duck’ resident in AirSpace. A stuffed 5lb Aylesbury duck to be precise of the type used to test bird strikes on engines. Never fear there is a disclaimer to say the duck died a natural death before it got to the taxidermist.

Brian

I was going by the Firefly fuselage in hangar 2 at Duxford 😀

Brian

17Jan15

The forecast was for a bit of snow on Saturday so I headed off down to Duxford for what turned out to be an actual ‘bit’ of snow with a flurry which lasted about 30 seconds then the clouds rolled back and it was blue sky and sunshine. Again.

Brian