2017 European Theatre Day at FHC

[Crimea_River]

I will be leaving shortly to drive out to Everett Washington for the European Theatre Day air show at the Flying Heritage and Combat Armour Museum. This year's show will feature the newly arrived Mosquito in addition to the other rare flyable warbirds in the collection. Hope to see the 88mm flak gun fire as well!

The weather forecast looks favourable and I'll post some pics perhaps as early as Saturday evening.

 

[Jeff Hunt]

Sounds like a plan.....looking forward to your installments!

Safe travels....

Jeff

 

[Robert Porter]

Make sure some politicians are flying by when the flak gun fires.

 

[Airframes]

Sounds like a good show - looking forward to the pics.

 

[Crimea_River]

Made good time today and arrived at Paine Field at about lunch time. Grabbed a gyro and headed out to see what was going on. Aircraft being towed out to the apron and a photo shoot flight with the Zero and 109. The Zero was the camera ship and had the rear canopy removed for the photographer. The 190 fired up, taxied out with the other two, then turned back for some engine tweaks without taking off. Hopefully they'll get it sorted tomorrow. Anyway, here are a few teasers:

This one was shot through a chain link fence so pardon the grey smudge in the bottom left.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent..!

 

[rochie]

Very nice Andy

 

[Jeff Hunt]

Out freaking standing.....if that was the appetizer bring on the main course.

Cheers,

Jeff

 

[Micdrow]

Great shots there Andy

 

[Robert Porter]

Nice shots!

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Andy, looking forward to more.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. It's 6:45am on Game Day, Sun is out and skies are blue. Should be good.

The decision to make will be positioning. The pictures above were taken at just after 4pm local time on the other side of the field from the museum. The runway runs north/south and the flight line is along the runway. With the show beginning at 1pm it will be a toss-up as to where the best pics can be taken and the taxiing shots will all be better on the museum side. A coin toss could be in the offing....

 

[Airframes]

Heads ..................

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Crimea_River]

Heads wins. Stayed on the museum side and got the below taxi pics which would not have been possible from t'other side. The weather could to have been better for the show though, to be picky, a few clouds might have made for a better background for the flying shots. These will follow shortly as I sort through them plus I have lots of static shots that I may chose to bore you with at the end.

Turns out that whatever issue was plaguing the 190's BMW801 did not get resolved and she didn't fly today unfortunately. The 6 birds seen in the pics below made up the contingent for the short flying display.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Crimea_River]

Some spirited passes by the P-47:

 

[Crimea_River]

Unlike the P-47 which reflected the sunlight, the relatively dark uppers of the Spitfire turned out quite dark as it banked away from the sun. The first pic is unmodified and the second has been shopped to lighten shadows, something I don't do as a rule but I've thrown it in for interest.

 

[Wayne Little]

great stuff.