I’ve found it best to avoid leaving too quickly after the display has finished. On Sunday, you’ll have the London flypast return to DX (or maybe they’ll head home to their individual bases…?) after 5pm, so stick around for a while. You can also take an alternative route, heading towards Shuttleworth on the A505, then onto the A11 (?), which avoids the M11 holdups and is a more scenic route. It eventually takes you back to the Stanstead roundabout, so it would be idea for you.

Its set to be at Biggin on the first weekend of September. That’s the only booking I can think of.

Here’s a pic of I-MRSV at Legends or was it still Classic Fighter then?

Fiat @ Duxford

Any help on the date much appreciated.

Paul

I believe that belonged/belongs to Pino Valentay/Valenti (sp?), and is based in Italy. It appeared at numerous Legends’ in the 1990s, making its final DX appearence at FL2000.

Doesn’t it go something like this…

P51D ‘Ferocious Frankie’ – OFMC, DX
P51D ‘Twilight Tear’ – TFC, DX
P51C ‘Princess Elizabeth’ – TFC, DX (under restoration)
P51D ‘Susy’ – RAC, Breighton
P51D ‘Miss Helen’ – Robs Lamplough, Bristol?
P51D ‘Jumpin’ Jacques’ – Peter Teichman, North Weald
P51D ‘Big Beautiful Doll’ – Rob Davies, Woodchurch
P51D ‘Janie’ – Maurice Hammond, Hardwick?

Foreign:
P51D ‘Nookie Bookie IV’ – France
P51D ‘Damn Yankee’ – Holland, SHF
P51D ‘Old Crow’ – Sweden, RNLAF Historic Flight
P51D ‘Double Trouble II’ – Switzerland?

Any more in Europe I’ve missed? That makes a total of 11 P51Ds and 1 P51C in Europe 😀

Anyway, very nice photo, it just isn’t the same not seeing her in the air at DX 🙁

I’d vote for Robert Radcliffe’s superb 8th AF saga Under an English Heaven.

This would enable a comfortable mix of airborne action and East Anglian based plot development.

Agreed, a great book that could make a very good film.

I’m sure others can elaborate more on this matter, but isn’t it something to do with foreign warbirds not maintaining the high standards required by the CAA to perform in the UK? IIRC, there was a situation in 1997 where European warbirds were not up to CAA standards, and so couldn’t appear at UK shows. This changed the following year, and since then European warbirds have made appearances at UK airshows, albeit rarely.

It may also have something to do with the cost of getting them over.

Nice pics.

Was there any aerial activity worthy of note today?