Dead excited 😀 going to Legends for the first time since the only time I went in 2007 (i think) , in fact that’s the last time I went to Duxford, it’ll also be my partner’s first time at Duxford, he’s pretty excited too 😀 as for annoying commentators, I’m not sure anyone can be more annoying then Shoreham Airshow’s Mr has to mention his career as a Concorde pilot during every single display and everything is “such a joy to fly” ¬.¬

Gutted I can’t make it this year, the line up this year looks the best it’s been for a long time! Unfortunately my Nana was inconveniently born on that weekend 80 years ago and we’re all going away for it… poo.

wow their collection is HUGE!!!!

I’m amazed Legends wasn’t on the list , I’ve only had the privilege of going once, but the 25 fighter fly past, 2 B 17’s together and aircraft like the JU 52 were some of the best things I’ve ever seen at an airshow EVER, I get so SO bored of seeing the RAF displays over and over and over again….. the hawk, tucano & bulldog displays i find participially dull… (I’m still not sure why they bother displaying the bulldog its display is so uninteresting) I miss Denny Dobson (sp?) in his Extra 300, I was always amazed at how he threw that plane around the sky

I’m still bitter that the one year I went to RIAT it was flooded off… ¬.¬

Hoping to get to Legends this year if funds allow

Pretty excited at the prospect of maybe seeing a mass Hurricane fly-by one day 😀

I have to admit when I saw the Spitfire at IWM London, I thought the paint job was a really bad museum painting mistake , I was looking at it thinking “surely a MK I should be in brown and green”

I have only recently learnt reading on here that it is in genuine later war colours, in which case I think while aesthetically it would probably look nicer restored to BoB colours especially if it were being restored to flight, however, if the current paintwork is original 40’s and the plane is only going to be hanging form a ceiling and not going anywhere, then keep it like that!!!

🙂

*I would much prefer to see the aircraft displayed on the ground, I like to be able pot get up close and look in the cockpit etc… Hsnging from the ceiling they always just look like big airfix kits… it’s not quite the same as seeing them flying for real

Amazing collection! there’s a guy that displays his 1/72 models at Model World, Brighton, and they’re ALL battle of britain era, there must be nearly 200 at least both english & german

and every single plane has a little card with the pilot(s) who flew it and the squadron and airfieldand year.

Incredible.

When I was bulding model Aircraft regulary I started Collecting 1/48 Model Spitfires to try and do as many variations as possible

It’s difficult because NEARLY every model spitfire made is a I, V, IX or XVI

i know there others around

I do plan on returning to it one day, don’t have the space in my current shared house

I think my current colleciton stands at

Early 2 bladed Mk. I
Late Mk. I
Vb
Vc
Seafire (III?)
VIII
IX
A PR Blue…. IX? I think
XVI
an all black with gold nose (XVI ?)
F.24

and One other that I forget, they live at my parents’ house , I know there’s 12 of them aha