A classic shot of a rare and classic airframe. Such a shame that it will probably never be re-assembled 🙁

Thanks for posting it 🙂

Willow

Sounds like the beer alone would make the trip worthwhile.

Thanks for the info BlueRobin
(or should that be ‘WhiteCessna’) 🙂

Willow

You’ll notice that advertising posters for Duxford tend to concentrate on the ‘History’ and ‘experience’ side of things rather than the ‘war’ side of things. Yes, I know it’s the Imperial WAR Museum, but it could hardly call itself ‘Europes Premier Aviation Museum’ (which it does) without the likes of Concorde. The airliners make it into a fully rounded museum, owned by the IWM.

If you want to overboard on the war thing, then scrap the Lightning, as it never fired a shot in anger.

No, no, no. Don’t scrap the Lightning, I was just making a point, I didn’t mean it:(

Willow

Originally posted by robbelc

That Comet, no matter how coroded, was far more hostircial tha the Dandair one now there

I disagree. Simply because it’s an ex-military airframe does not automatically make it more historical. Even if it is a rare sub-type (yes, I know it was a C2R and therefore quite rare when new), sometimes individual histories count. The Comet 4 at Duxford was the first jet aircraft to cross the Atlantic with fare-paying passengers on board. Slightly more historic than the ex RAF machine, I’m afraid.

Don’t misunderstand me, I was appalled by the destruction of the Comet 2, as I am by the future, or lack of, for the Shackleton, but I just wanted to set the record straight about the Comet 4.

As an aside, Duxfords Concorde prototype has flown faster and higher than any other commercial airliner. Surely they cannot seriously consider dismantling this very historic aeroplane. The idea of using fuselage sections from the Filton example is a much better one.

Oh, and to anyone who says that airlines do not belong at Duxford, you could use the same argument when refering to the Land Warfare exhibition. And to the Lifeboat and submarines. And the prefab. And if you want to get really fussy, it also applies to types which never served there such as the SR71 or Tornado. Taking it even further, I don’t know of B24s or Lancasters being based there either!! But that doesn’t mean that we don’t want to see them there.

So there :p

Willow

Nice. Hopefully see it around a bit more in the future.

Willow

Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
A poor excuse if ever I heard one.

True. It doesn’t usually stop me:)

Thanks for the Yak info. Considering that there’s more than a couple of these about these days, it’s surprising how rarely they are seen out and about. In fact, the only ones that I’ve seen this year have been accompanied by Mustangs (this is the 3rd time).

Willow

Why, was something exciting going on?

By the way, do you, as an obvious expert on the Yak11 (crawl, crawl) happen to know which Yak11 this was?

Willow

Fair enough (don’t forget that I didn’t see this piece of film – although I’m fast getting the picture!!).

Changing the subject, I was in the Doncaster area on Sunday and a Mustang in 78thFG colours transitted over heading South, accompanied by a Yak11. As the Mustang could well have been ‘Big Beautiful Doll’ I’m wondering if ‘Janie’ is disguised so well that she now looks like a Yak11.

Yak11Fan, is this your doing?:D

Willow