Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Karl and I met-up at a new (to us) camp site on Saturday, ready for Flying Legends at Duxford the following day, when we were due to meet Andy (Crimea River) and his family, over from Canada, and Gary (Geedee), along with my daughter Josie and her boyfriend, up from London for the day.
The weather was good on both days, with hot sun, but some cloud to the south and partly overhead, which caused a few exposure problems at times. The 'Tin Tent' provided a base, with seating and the facilities of the van for those who required them, and a great day was had by us all - with a 'barbie' back at the camp site later that evening.
The show was opened by the Scampton Darts Team, aka The Red Arrows, and with the cloud base at that time at around 5,000 feet, they did their 'rolling' display, at a slight angle to the crowd line which, although impressive, lacked the impact of their full display - but maybe it was because I've seen them so many times over the last 50 years, one of the reasons I only took a couple of token shots.
Their display was interrupted part-way through, for around ten minutes, when they had to hold off, as some d***head under a para-motor had wandered into the 6 mile exclusion zone. Obviously he or she hadn't read the days NOTAMs, if in fact they even knew what NOTAMs are !
Anyway, I'll start off with a few mediocre shots in these first two posts, with a couple of shots of the 'Arrows', followed by the Spitfire formation and tails chase.
And for Marcel's benefit, their were only nine Spitfires .............................
The weather was good on both days, with hot sun, but some cloud to the south and partly overhead, which caused a few exposure problems at times. The 'Tin Tent' provided a base, with seating and the facilities of the van for those who required them, and a great day was had by us all - with a 'barbie' back at the camp site later that evening.
The show was opened by the Scampton Darts Team, aka The Red Arrows, and with the cloud base at that time at around 5,000 feet, they did their 'rolling' display, at a slight angle to the crowd line which, although impressive, lacked the impact of their full display - but maybe it was because I've seen them so many times over the last 50 years, one of the reasons I only took a couple of token shots.
Their display was interrupted part-way through, for around ten minutes, when they had to hold off, as some d***head under a para-motor had wandered into the 6 mile exclusion zone. Obviously he or she hadn't read the days NOTAMs, if in fact they even knew what NOTAMs are !
Anyway, I'll start off with a few mediocre shots in these first two posts, with a couple of shots of the 'Arrows', followed by the Spitfire formation and tails chase.
And for Marcel's benefit, their were only nine Spitfires .............................
