Tough life?!! Oh what drudgery eh!
I’ll be facing you today!
Look forward to more pics from you. Will probably take me the rest of the week to go through the weekends hard work!

Mart

Some stunning pics there! I feel the same having peaked early! Looks like I may have been standing very close by. I was the one in the white F16 T shirt with the Canon 450D. I’ll be up early to get in the paying side in the morning. What fantastic weather for it, but have to say it seemed all over in a flash. Glad to see the Avenger for the first time at Duxford, but I’ve definitely been to better shows at Duxford. When will we get more heavy’s rather than just Sally B at Flying legends?

Martin

Superb shots Anna, and what a fantastic day it was. Definitely a special day and certainly not your usual Duxford spring show!
The weather was certainly booked for the weekend properly eh?!!!
Hope to see more shots from the event, especially of “that” flypast!

Martin

Martin, Yes, it was me you saw… on my way home to Felthorpe. The weather was perfectly OK with about 7k vis and 2,000 odd ft cloudbase. The worst part was the absolutely freezing draught through the door ‘seals’! I had to have my travel rug over my lap. 🙂

Cheers helicopterdcr! It was nice to see an old biplane in the skies over Bury! My first historic aircraft sighting of the year. Shame there isn’t as much activity from Rougham as there used to be. Oh, I did mean north easterly! Hope to see your Hornet Moth again sometime!

All the best!
Martin

Thanks David for that superb thread of history on the “Kittyhawk”! Really kind of you to share that information with us. Really excellent to learn the meandering background to such a rare beauty. Look forward to the next scheme that she will be wearing.
I hope to see some historical background to the next P-40 arrival at Duxford! All I know is that it will be a shiny one & can’t remember off hand what version of P.40 it is. I gather that Mr Grey likes P.40’s a lot! 🙂
Any-one have any idea when it will arrive at Duxford?

Martin

Hi,

many thanks for all your comments.

To answer a couple of points,

The main lens I used was a Sigma 150-500, which I only bought a week before this show. Although heavy, I soon got used to using it and have found it essential for airshows and avaition in general since then. It’s particularly good at Duxford.

This show was a celebration of Saab’s 75th Anniversary, but the previous Malmen show also included the Swedish AF Heritage flights fleet, and they are always flown with enthusiasm.

Having the show at Malmen also gives the bonus of the fantastic Flyvapenmuseum, if you have an extra day to spare.

We flew with Ryanair from Stansted to Gothenburg City (home of the Aeroseum) which is a few hours drive away from Malmen but you can easily add the museums at Ugglarp and Angelholm in.

Thoroughly recommended, and I shall be going again in two years time if they do it again!

Cheers
Alan

Brilliant, thanks for sharing Alan, really love the Viggen taking off shot!!!! 😉

An air show opportunity not to be missed, and yes that is a heavy lens for an airshow! A friend of mine has that in use along with a converter, but my Sigma 80-400mm is enough for my weedy arms!

Martin

How could the Air Fair at two days get in the way of business, or in other words make a dent in a years worth of revenue? So, didn’t the Air Fair bring much in the way of income to the Airport despite being packed on those two days? If I can travel for an hour to Shuttleworth for something similar then what would entice me to travel 4-5 hours to Biggin Hill for this planned show, especially when I can see most of the aircraft on display at Duxford during their shows as well. I’m not entirely convinced that this will be a winner for the future of Airshows at Biggin. Maybe for those who live within an hour or two who never venture north of London, this will be of interest.
I do miss the Air Fair, but don’t believe it was stopped because of loss of Business revenue, it’s not as if Private flights stopped totally on airshow days.