The Bucker Jungmann put on a fine aerobatic display, although lighting conditions were a touch 'flat' for good photos.
The aircraft is actually a Spanish-built CASA 1-131, built in 1952, and finished in the colours worn by a Jungmann in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
More pics to follow soon ...........
Just got a bit of down time to post these few shots. As Terry mentioned, Berlin Express had a mishap that prevented it from flying on Sunday. Fortunately, I was there on Saturday to see its one and only flight.
A very showy take-off, beating up the field at maybe 8 feet while retracting the undercarriage:
At some point, the aircraft lost its Malcolm hood and I only noticed after hearing about it that I have it in this state on one of its passes and as it taxied past me on the. Not a good pic as this is heavily cropped, but you can see the missing hood, the pilot slouched behind the windscreen, and the dent in the vertical stab where the hood apparently made contact:
Great shots Andy !
That's the one I really wanted to see flying. Hopefully, it'll be fixed fairly quickly.
The next two posts show part of the mock dogfight between the P-40 and resident Buchon, the latter in its new, temporary, heavily weathered desert scheme, which I believe has been applied for a documentary.
Apologies for the poor quality - these were all taken at fairly long range.
The Spitfire duo provided their usual elegant performance of close formation aerobatics. Again, fairly mediocre photos.
Next selection, tomorrow, will feature the Hurricanes and Blenheim formation.
Great shots guys!!!, I have always wondered why they had the two tone camouflage on the spitfire on the bottom. Any idea's why or was it for quick identification? Again great shots.
Next slot featured the Blenheim, first in formation with three Spitfire Mk1s, four Hurricanes and a Sea Hurricane.
One of the Hurricane Mk1s is a survivor of the Battle of Britain, and another, new to the UK airshow circuit this year, was recovered from a beach near Dunkirk, where it force landed in June 1940.
Although I wasn't fully aware at the time, I experienced some exposure and focusing problems from this point, and I can only think it was possibly due to the mixed lighting and 'flat' clouds, combined with shooting at fairly long ranges, and the fact that I'd inadvertently altered the exposure '+/-' setting when changing from 'continuous' to single frame mode, going 1 stop under exposed !!
Pics divided between this and the next post.