Ha – Beautiful shots, many thanks for the close-up view.

I was leaving work on Madingley Road, Cambridge, this afternoon at about 16:00ish and heard the unmistakable sound of a war-bird engine and sure enough, it was followed by an unmistakable shape just low enough that I could see the stripes on the wings.

I was pretty sure it was Snafu so your pictures have confirmed it.

I stopped in the carpark to watch the free air display way out in the distance over Duxford before heading for home. My first airborne warbird spot of the year!

That’s one beautiful aircraft 😀

Thanks for the pics – super. 😀

Nice pictures. Spring is in the air. Let the airshow season begin!!

I second that!!!

Cheers for running it – my partner and I really enjoyed the day and relished the opportunity to get close to such a beautifully preserved aircraft.

I’ve not got round to it yet but will send a CD with a few of my shots into the Aviation Centre as a thank you.

I also had a go at compressing the dynamic range of a B&W image to give it that war-time look – a bit more work needed I think, but if you squint a little it could almost be a 1940’s photo

Thanks again!

Hello all,
We are planning on hosting a photographers event on the 17th March 2012 (evening) at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby.
We want to try and make this event the best it can be and are looking for your ideas on what shot etc you would like available and which vehicles/aircraft you would like to see available.
But also, who would be interested in attending as we would need enough people to attend to make the event financially viable (especially if we ran the Lanc).

Hi there,

I’d be very interested in attending this – I’ll check the website as I can see that this is a fairly old post.

If you could get the old girl to, say about 5,000 ft, and fly me along side as the sun is going down, I reckon I might pay double 😉

Cheers for the heads-up: I’ve been wanting to visit Just Jane for yonks and this would be the ideal excuse.

[EDIT] Just booked the tickets. See you there!

The only problem is that ebay are wont to remove listings that state cash only, as it is a policy that Paypal has to be accepted for all transactions!

True, but I’ve never had a problem with saying cash on collection only

If you say you are willing to accept offers, then you also have to include the ‘Make Offer’ button on your listing.

Again, you have to word it in a way that suggests that you’ll still sell it through eBay, hence the ‘Buy It Now’ wording – certainly don’t say ‘just turn up and pay cash’ – you arrange that off-line!

Free listing weekends save you 10p if you start at the nominal 99p – with a high value, high interest item, there is no point in starting any higher. Be brave!

Haha – that’s the exciting way of doing it!!! If you do it the other way (i.e. start it at a price you’d be willing to accept) then it tells prospectve ‘Buy It Now’ buyers what sort of price you’re after – particularly useful if you’re testing the market with a higher price than you think might be achievable.

The aim of my instructions is to get a free classified advert but you’re right with what you say – if you really do intend to sell via an auction (esp. an item that’s V&A – Valuable and Attractive) start it low and watch it go!

No offence intended 🙂

Dan Griffith’s display in the MK IX at Rougham was the best Spitfire display I have seen all of this year. Speed, low, tight turns, was epic!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

Totally agree – if I close my eyes I can still see it in my mind’s eye. What a treat 🙂

It’ll be quite hard to hide once I get it home so does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should tell the wife?:o

Tell her that it came with Issue 1 at the introductory price of £1.99 and that you’re intending to build the whole model….!