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It's airshow season and the weather is er, mixed, so here's some pics from my day out yesterday. This venerable crate was being flown rather near the edges of the flight envelope and it was a treat to watch!
 
This was, until last week, the only Annie flying anywhere (the Kiwis have got in on the act with another restoration). This was the first RAF aircraft with retractable undercarriage and the aircraft in which a distant relation turned my uncle's face green with airsickness just after the war. Ladies and gentlemen, the Avro Anson!
 
The Casa 1.131 is a Spanish-built Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann and another fabulous aerobatic biplane, although I'll say the Tiger Moth pilot outflew him yesterday, At least he got some sunshine.

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WWI replicas are in more evidence at shows. These are an SE5a and a Junkers CL.I who staged a slow-motion intercept - at little over 100mph it's hardly the Battle of Britain.


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There were a few fast jets, these guys seem to crop up in lots of places:-


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But what I particularly wanted to see - and hear - was this bad boy: boom & zoom routine par excellence. Eighteen cylinders, more than 2300hp and a five-blade prop: are you ready for the rumble?


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Many thanks to Phil who kindly lent me his digital SLR!
 
hairyspin said:
It's airshow season and the weather is er, mixed, so here's some pics from my day out yesterday. This venerable crate was being flown rather near the edges of the flight envelope and it was a treat to watch!
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Where were you? Great photos. I assume the Anson is the one from Classic flight? I saw it close up flying off from it's home at Airbase, Baginton, Coventry.
 
Jeff, it's the Scottish National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, near Drem (or a little east of Edinburgh if that helps). Nothing lands during the show since the old runways are used for visitor parking nowadays. The museum has a pretty good collection and I last went there five years ago. Perhaps its most unusual items are the Me163 Komet and its rocket motor.

The Annie is ex-Classic Flight, now under a new charitable trust setup which has taken on CF's aircraft.
 
The SE5a reminds me of when i had the Red Baron game.................................oh I will miss it(broke):salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute:




I love the Tiger and Fury, and the Anson!
 
Wonderful pictures Tom, thanks for sharing them. You lucky blighter!

Particularily like the Anson in the silver finish. :)

I saw the Jumkers and SE5's at Branscombe a couple of years back, great fun to watch!
 
wonderful shots, Tiger looks nicely done, all do...

Wouldn't believe it, but Anson was inaugural (post-war) Airliner here for East West Airlines, Tamworth to Sydney. So famous was it, they restored the first Anson they had (metal wings) and preserved it in a special glass-fronted hangar for all to see near the current RPT terminal at the local airport. Looks pretty good, lit at night.

It was quite a deal then, as it was all there was; other than specific charters in things like Tigers and old Avro's, etc.


[Brain and Brown Airlines also used to cart freight over the southern oceans, until fairly late times. One (metal winged) was still being restored by the company in 1978; was helping to cover up the gun port in front of the pilot: it was still there! Guess it survives somewhere.]
 
PS: The museum one here looks almost identical, in silver (with out RAF markings, of course), just with the airline name 'on the roof' and exactly the same matt-black anti-glare on the nose.
 
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