Some very nice shots there! No Vulcan? Did it display in the end. I did the Friday show & the weather was fine.
I was thinking that your shots are nice & sharp & full frame, were you standing at the end of the pier?

Martin

Radio 6 are currently playing a track called “London Can Take It” by Public Service Broadcast, which is a strange hybrid of WW2 American propaganda broadcast and a modern beat, which makes for disturbing listening. It reminded me of this, which I first heard on a Manfred Mann’s Earth Band album (hippy alert!).

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/

197 bombers heading for Mannheim, 186 returned. And the nightingales sang on…

I guess this is what people like my father heard night after night, day after day, as the RAF and the USAAF did their work.

Adrian

That PSB (J Wilgoose) young wippersnappers aren’t that bad. Pretty good use of archive sound snippets. They did a pretty good track called ‘Spitfire’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE&list=FLd-2akmyqo-5xWT5FNQVmjA&index=22&feature=plpp_video

Martin

In my humble opinion it has to be the Hawker P1081

No other aircraft as sweet as this

Read the post again!

It says nothing about any aircraft owned by TFC, and is posted by a man whose passion is for Supermarines finest!!

I know! Sorry for changing the subject! More Spitfires can’t be a bad thing and couldn’t agree more to seeing a Mk22 in flight with that tall rudder! In fact I wonder if one of those XVII’s crated up will make it to Duxford some time?

On a more serious note, very sad about the accident at Duxford. Only heard a small amount of info, but hope for the best.

I had to double take when I saw that Harvard! Who on earth allowed it to be registered with that!!!!!
The kids at the show will have to be blind folded when they walk past it. Flying Legends will have to have “Parental Guidance” stickers on the tickets and show guides! 😀

You’ve done superbly with that lens. That chaff/flare release/F16 shot is excellent & really good timing, following that upwards! I failed with that & I have a Sigma 400mm. Brilliant shots!

Martin

I once flew into Kjevik back in 1995 I think it was, in a Maersk 737. The only reason why this thread reminded me was of that flight into Kjevik in that 737. I visited the Quart Festival that year, so I did get to have a good look round lovely Kristiansand and the very nice people, totally loved it there! I think I should have been born in Norway! It seemed at the time that the pilot wasn’t that confident that he was going to be able to stop before the end of the runway as it was torrential rain at the time. It is right that there is coast line very close to the end of the runway? Well not only that but the pilot had to make a steep bank to dog leg into the valley to line up with the runway. It was impressive flying what with his commentry on the uses of the runway during the war. I’m sure that there was a Spitfire airframe on the airfield that could be seen, maybe some other airframe.
I do remember departing to Copenhagen in a more appropriate Maersk Fokker 50, with the best airline food I have ever had!
Thanks for the info about getting to those airports, if only I could afford it and have the time to do all that!
Thanks for that youtube clip!

Martin

Saw that Chinook bomb past Bury St Edmunds around 12:50, plus a lot of Apache activity & one very low over the house near the Rougham Airfield. One thing I regularly saw going around every so often were three stunt planes, I first thought it was the Blades, but those Red Bull stunt plane (what type of AC are they?) may be what I saw. Also heard a multi jet flypast over Bury but didn’t see them & have no idea what they were. Loads of people in the street were looking skywards. Anybody have an idea what this was?