30Oct13

Just a quick visit from me this morning and as reported by DCW, the Quilt Show is back in town and were setting up in AirSpace.

Brian

This thread has been dormant for too long… what have you guys been up to?

When I retired last year I thought with the free time I had I’ll be able to get back to sitting behind my drawing board and scribbling away with my pens and pencils. Hasn’t worked so far as this photography stuff at Duxford keeps getting in the way. 😀 I even carry a sketch pad and scribbling sticks in my camera bag, to improve my freehand drawing, but haven’t used them yet. Must do better.

Brian

It’s close but I really need an earlier version of this which has the arrow (which looks very like a BOAC Speedbird here) is made up of thin parallel lines. It dates from the time before the company’s aircraft had blue cheat lines.

Like this? flightglobal.com/pdfarchiveskyways

Brian

Georgeland

If the Diary doesn’t return then Duxford Bimble will be in this section.

Brian

150th visit of the year to Duxford and still two months to the end of the year to cram some more in. I wasn’t expecting much to have changed since I left yesterday but on arriving this morning you couldn’t miss the Shackleton sitting on the jet pan where Sally-B had been the day before and the Victor parked outside AirSpace. The Conservation Hall!! is being used this weekend as part of the ELMS BMW roadshow and next weekend the Quilt Show is back. There were a couple of war bird movements with the Desert Buchon going down to ARCo and the Grace Sptifire doing circuits and TFC parked their Hellcat on the airfield for an engine run. In hangar 5 the Lancaster cockpit ‘F for Freddie’ has moved from the north side of the hangar to the south side.

Spot the flame. Just

Brian

HS-748

Brian

14Oct13

Having left home earlier than normal and parking on both the A14 and M11 due to ‘Incidents’ because of the wet roads, I made it to Duxford just in time to see the canopy on the Hunter closing and the Tucano crew preping their aircraft. Elsewhere ARCo were moving their aircraft off the airfield and back into hangar 2 and museum satff clearing up after the air show. Lots of cars and motorbikes of various ages, shapes and descriptions were arriving for the H&H auction in AirSpace on Wednesday.

Brian