Oostwold Airshow, June 5th 2017.

parsifal · Jun 15, 2017

Beautiful aircraft, in an American sort of way......

Airframes · Jun 15, 2017

Thanks chaps.
A couple more of the P-40s, and the start of the Spitfire and Mustang display, with the Dutch Spitfire, and Norwegian P-51D.

Wurger · Jun 15, 2017

Airframes · Jun 15, 2017

The Norwegian Spitfire and Mustang .....

Wurger · Jun 15, 2017

Airframes · Jun 15, 2017

More Spits and the Mustang .........

Airframes · Jun 15, 2017

Thanks Wojtek.

Wurger · Jun 15, 2017

My pleasure Terry. Really great shots... :thumbright:

Airframes · Jun 15, 2017

Thanks again my friend. Some of them could be better, but a bank of darker cloud came in for a while during the end of the Spit and Mustang display, lasting during the four-ship Spitfire display which followed, causing some exposure problems.

Wurger · Jun 15, 2017

I see.

Crimea_River · Jun 15, 2017

I hate when that happens.

Gnomey · Jun 16, 2017

Lovely shots guys!

Airframes · Jun 16, 2017

A few fairly poor shots of the Spitfire formation, and I must apologise to Marcel for being (jokingly) blase, when I said "What, only four !", being accustomed to seeing 12 or more at Duxford !
This was quite a sight for aviation fans in the Netherlands, and I forget how lucky we are in the UK, to have so many Spitfires airworthy.
The Law of Sod deemed that the sky turned fairly dull for this display !

Wurger · Jun 16, 2017

Marcel · Jun 16, 2017

That's okay Terry. Wait until we got a squadron of D.XXI's.

Airframes · Jun 16, 2017

The next two posts show the Air Combat Europe team, with their ultralight aircraft with the odd name of 'Black Shape Prime', an extremely interesting and quite fast and agile tandem-seat aircraft, with a 'glass' cockpit, and powered by Rotax engines.
These were equipped for simulated air combat, and flown by former F-16 pilots - who had the benefit of a very attractive ground crew member !
The images are not as sharp as i would like, due to hand-holding the camera.