Well said Skypilot. I thought the period re-enactors were a brilliant touch – add a taste of authencity in my opinion – plus once uploaded/scanned etc, you can play about with the photos in Photoshop/Photo Editor to convert them into b/w or sepia 🙂
My thoughts on Sunday’s show:
1) Spitfire tailchase as fantastic as ever 🙂
2) Loved the Rapide formation – having watched the Miller’s Rapide coming back to life for sometime now, I really enjoyed seeing her flying (and leading the pack :))
3) Although it was a shame that the P-40 had problems and landed without displaying, I thought it was rather nice to have “Brooklyn Bum 2nd” display on her own given her very recent arrival at Duxford.
4) I thought there was a better selection of stalls this year – less tat and more aviation stuff
5) Flight line walk – made the mistake of going on it at it’s busiest – it seemed to be full of rude, arrogant oiks, who were pushing, shoving and swearing at each other (and me) to get the “perfect” picture – of course we all like to get the perfect picture, but some people lose sight of what’s important – remembering the men and women who flew/navigated/crewed/maintained these aircraft and so on…
Agree with comments made re press photographers…perhaps the press could have a half hour start/half hour session to themselves before opening the flight line to all – works both ways in terms of view of aircraft.
Didn’t mind paying £4 for the walk either…believe the money goes to TFC, and although I know the money made from the flight line walk won’t exactly cover the running costs of the weekend, I hope it helps.
6) Don’t think I have met as many forum members on one day as I did yesterday – it was great to see you all – new faces and old – and was an absolute pleasure to meet Anna 😉 (But I really am sorry whalebone :()
7) Simply loved the BBMF Spitfire duo – was the first time I had seen the MkXIX in her new “dress” and thought she really stood out on the flight line, and even more so in the air – I thought the blue looked really good against the clouds. Was extremely annoyed when I checked my photos on the camera last night, that the one photo the camera could not open was my close up of the MkXIX on the flight line :()
All in all I thought it was one of the best Legends I’ve been to – a real variety of aircraft. I agree with Robbo that maybe the I-15 might fit the scale of Old Warden better, but many thanks to those who brought her over anyway – a nice surprise 🙂 Many thanks to all the pilots, ground crew and personnel who made this weekend happen, I had a fantastic time, as did Mr Ashley and Mummy and Daddy Ashley.
Becka
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