D-Day Commerative air show, Duxford, May 2014 (1 Viewer)

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I understand you Terry. Do you run the Vista 64-bit? Is the Irfanview a new installation on the comp with the Vista OS?
 
and hope the wife doesnt get in the way !


You sir are either very brave or foolish. Wives don't " get in the way"....they are here to make sure we do not get carried away and enjoy ourselves for more than a couple of minutes at a time. All I know is that if a man says something and there is no woman there to here him....he is still wrong......or so my wife says.


Cheers,

Jeff
 
Wives, and women in general, are God's way of telling us that, somewhere along the line, we've ****ed up !!
Thanks again chaps, and I've sorted the 'Irfanview' problem, I think.
It looks like it was simply a slightly different way of accessing the picture files, in the Vista operating system, compared to Windows XP. I was so tired that I didn't see the layout of listings above the 'My Pictures' box in the 'Irfanview' menu !!

Anyway, continuing with the D Day pics, the liaison/spotter/communications aircraft were represented by Piper Cubs and Austers, buzzing about very nimbly, doing steep turns and lazy figure 8 fly bys in a very comprehensive display sequence..
The glider-borne element was represented by both vintage and modern gliders and sailplanes, one of the former actually taking part in radar trials, in 1940, from mid Channel, in order to establish if a possible German glider assault against the British Isles could be detected. (Coincidentally, I've just read an article about this, by the pilot concerned, in a 1970's edition of 'Aeroplane' magazine !).
And then the Daks prepared to taxy for take off for the finale of the show.... I'm afraid my legs were totally knackered by this stage, and I couldn't make it over to the opposite end of the compound we were in, to get better shots of the aircraft taxiing in line astern. But I can tell you the sound was fantastic, and the prop wash even better - as witnessed by my cap, which went for an unscheduled solo flight as the first Dak carried out a mag drop check !!
More pics very soon.
 

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Thanks Karl and David. I notice that again, there's some loss of quality and resolution when posted here on the forum. For example, in the first shot, of the Auster, the original pic shows all the detail in the shadow areas, and is much 'brighter', and the pic of the two gliders being towed by the Pawnee has lost contrast, tone and detail - the tow lines should be clearly visible.
Ah well, at least my copies are fine !!
 
Thanks Andy, Wojtek and Hugh.
Here's my final, rather long batch from the D-Day show, although I might post some 'arty farty' ones in a separate thread, and I'll also start a thread covering our visit to Old Warden, on the way back from Duxford.
Next lot from DX will be from Flying Legends, in mid July, when I hope to meet up again with Geedee and maybe others. Meanwhile, I'll leave you with the superb sight of four Daks, C-47's, Gooney Birds - call them what you will - in the air together, with one dropping the Parachute Regiment free fall team, the Red Devils.
 

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