Doesn’t Jeremy Clarkson have one in his garden – or am I thinking of something I saw in one of his shows?
Okay – didn’t realise that there was something else I could attend – it’s a 5am start for me, to get there for 10, and I can’t really afford it – but I’ll be there.
Green Honda CRX (with my website address on the back).
Just put my cameras on charge.
And – right now – Discovery Wings are showing the Hunter Anniversary show held at Kemble a couple of years ago, right now.
Oh and if anybody wants to say “hello” – I’ll be wearing a polo or t-shirt with my logo on the left breast (as shownon left of this post). If the weathers cool, I’ll have on my Alpine Lowe coat, with Vulcan badge.
This is me.
Okay – here’s the cheeky bit – if anybody wants to offer me a flight, I’ve never been in a 2 seater anything (except Chipmunk and Sedburgh – and even then since about 1972) – and it was my birthday last weekend 😉 I would love the opportunity for an AE flight 😀
Just for balance here are links to a couple of Hawker/Armstrong Whitworth Seahawk sites:
Just in case you didn’t know – the Seahawk was proven in battle. It was used by India against Pakistan towards the end of 1971. Some detail on the raid can be found on the Thunder & Lightnings website.
I think this picture illustrates why I need an even better stills camera:

Thanks. I knew it was a Sea something.
Yes, almost everything Naval with fixed wings is a “Sea Something” 😀 😀
Sorry – I don’t know myself – however a quick Google search for Sopwith Triplane reveals the following: –
Enjoy!
The first jet is the Sea Hawk. The Triplane is a Sopwith. Both were in production – although I doubt simultaneously!!! 😀
The Sopwith is airworthy (I have video proof), and the Sea Hawk nearly airworthy. There is another thread (about the RNHF) going into more detail than I know.
Nope – considerably fewer aircraft this year than last – no Misdemeanor or other Hunters, if I recall, for instance.
This year really has been dire down here in the West Country – the weather & war have colluded to give us a very dismal year.
The BBMF and a lot of others cancelled at the last moment due to poor weather around Yeovilton. Visitors coming from a close as Bristol gave up due to poor visibility.
Nope – I use a Fuji FinePix 2800Zoom for stills, but I am considering moving up to the new 400 range – which I’ve just seen in Jessops.
All I do is to resize (usually by 50 or 75%), occasionally crop as with the B17 above, and and save as a jpg file. This has the effect of reducing the filesize enormously. (I keep the originals unmolested, of course.)
I don’t use the digital zoom – and these were mostly taken at 2 megapixels – although I have been known to use both the 1mpx and vga settings to improve zoom, without sacrificing too much quality. However – I am finding those settings simply do what I can do with Paintshop Pro anyway!
The thumbnails on my website are created automatically by FrontPage.
A Seafire was present at the Yeovilton show on both 19th & 20th. I’m afraid I don’t have any details, and was using my video camera at the time it appears, so no stills – unless I can figure out how to extract them from the tape. Maybe later.
Ja asked
were there any other a/c that had hard points above the wings?
The answer is yes. The Jaguar utilises overwing hardpoints.
Here’s a taster: –
The missing survival equipment is, I believe, the ejector seat!
There will be a few photo’s of her as she was on Saturday 20th September on my website (Airshows 2003 page) shortly.
And I’ll put links here when they’re up.
Surprised you didn’t do the Photo Call on Friday, Coanda – I did both, and am just building a new webpage with some of the pictures I took.
When I’ve finished I’ll put links in the forum.
They’re all on the new Airshows 2003 page, if you go to my site using the link below.