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OT: off to Duxford airshow for the weekend...and it's work!

BeauBrummie

BeauBrummie

Home for tea and tiffin!
Yes it's true I am going to the Battle of Britain airshow at Duxford for work. One of the tenants I support in a group home is airplane crazy (his brothers in the RAF). After making a few comments about seeing airplanes live my manager gave me the green light to plan it. Sometimes sticking to this work for peanuts job has its benefits!

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You lucky, lucky barstard!






(Yes, I do know how to spell it, but auto-censor is switched on...)
 
Lucky you, Jeff! I wanted to go but can't, so I've something lined up for next weekend... Looks like you'll have good weather, try to post some pics?
 
Here's the list:

The Battle of Britain Air Show
4, 5 September 2010
Final Display participation (published 31 August 2010)
Battle of Britain Fighters
Sea Hurricane 1B (Z7015) Shuttleworth Collection
Hurricane I (R4118) P Vacher
Hurricane XIIa (Z5140) Historic Aircraft Collection
Hurricane IIB (BE505) Hangar 11 Collection
Hurricane (Mk tba) (not landing) Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby
Gladiator Shuttleworth Collection
Gladiator (static) The Fighter Collection
Me 109 Bouchon Historic Flying Ltd
Me 109 Bouchon (static) R Lake
Spitfire IA (AR213) Sheringham Aviation
Spitfire V (EP120) The Fighter Collection
Spitfire V (BM597) Historic Aircraft Collection
Spitfire VIII (MV154) Max Alpha Aviation
Spitfire IX (MH434) Old Flying Machine Co
Spitfire IX (PL344) Spitfire Ltd
Spitfire IX (TA805) P Monk
Spitfire IX (MK732) Royal Netherlands Air Force
Spitfire IXT (ML407) Air Leasing
Spitfire IXT (IAC161) Aircraft Restoration Co
Spitfire IXT (MJ627) MSB Aviation
Spitfire IXT (SM520) Spitfire Display Ltd
Spitfire XVI (TD248) Spitfire Ltd
Spitfire XVI (TE184) P Andrews
Spitfire XIX (PS890) Spitfire Warbird
Spitfire XIX (PS853) (static) Rolls Royce
Spitfire (Mk tba) (not landing) Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby
Seafire XV11 (SX336) Kennet Aviation
Military
Hawk x 9 (not landing) The Red Arrows, RAF Scampton
Alpha Jet x 8 (Sat only/not landing) FAF Patrouille de France, Base Aerienne Salon
Typhoon (Sat only/not landing) 29(F) Squadron, RAF Coningsby
Tucano (Sun only + spare) 72(R) Squadron, RAF Linton-on-Ouse
F-16 Fighting Falcon (not landing) 349(F) Squadron, BAF Kleine Brogel
Hawk x 5 (not landing) 19(F) Squadron, RAF Valley
Hawk x 2 (static – public side) 19(F) Squadron, RAF Valley
Aermacchi SF.260 x 2 (static) BAF Kleine Brogel
Lancaster (not landing) Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby
continued...
Civilian
Yak 50 x 6 (Sun only) Aerostars
B-17 B17 Preservation
Bearcat The Fighter Collection
Sea Fury The Fighter Collection
TF-51 Mustang The Fighter Collection
P-51 Mustang (static Sat)(Sun only) Old Flying Machine Co
Rapide D&M Miller
Hornet Moth D&M Miller
Leopard Moth (tbc) M&K Slack
Jungmeister M Rijkse
Jungmann Skytricks
Harvard Aircraft Restoration Co
Harvard The Fighter Collection
Catalina (static Sat)(Sun only) Plane Sailing
Airbus A319 (tbc - flypast Sat only) easyJet
Ferry Aircraft
Wasp (F-16 from/to RAF Mildenhall) Kennet Aviation
Squirrel (Red Arrows’ Red 10) RAF Shawbury​

All flying is subject to weather, serviceability & operational commitments.
 
18 Spitfires... And at France's premier warbirds show, they have seven or eight Harvards. Says it all.

I'm in the wrong country.
 
I wanted to go there as my brother live not far away at Norwich but it has not been possible. Well, I'll try to go to the Flying Legend airshow next july.

When I visited the museum for the first time, it was in the middle of a week in 1998. What I didn't knew before I go there is that they were preparing a huge airshow to commemorate the Spitfire entry in service in 1938 for the next week-end!! Absolutely fantastic, there were already many Spits in the place, some of them were flying, others were performing engine tests.
What a great day!
 
Thats just awesome Jeff, i keep wanting to go but everytime these things come round i'm either skintor to ill to cope with the long day, not bl**dy right. i guess theres always next year. Hope you have a great time although with that lineup thats defo gonna happen and defo lots of piccies please.

Dave
 
Look on the bright side, Dave - every year that goes by there are more airworthy aircraft from the War!
 
ndicki said:
Look on the bright side, Dave - every year that goes by there are more airworthy aircraft from the War!
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It's a shame that although rebuilt Me 262 and Fw 190 are already flying and there are a few properly restored Me 109 E and G, I never managed to see them. And I am still waiting for a Ju 87, Me 110 or a Ju 88.......
 
ndicki said:
Look on the bright side, Dave - every year that goes by there are more airworthy aircraft from the War!
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Yes but also, some of them have to be stopped for a reason or another such as the 'Pink Lady'.

My worst nightmare would be to learn that the Lancaster is definitely grounded. I should have seen it at Woodford airshow in 1998 but it didn't came due to bad wheather.
The main reason why I want to go to Duxford airshow is to see her in the sky.
 
The good bit is that while the Lancaster has to pay its way, the BoB Memorial Flight is a serving part of the RAF, and as such, I should be surprised if the EU and other equally idiotic bureaucratic organisations were to submit it to the same ludicrous constraints as civilian-owned heavy bombers... Namely, putting them into the same insurance category as commercial airliners which can generate enough money to continue operations, while these collector's pieces can clearly not.
 
Not the point, Oki! I'd love to see one, too, but I'm afraid that the probability of that ever happening is, well, about nil!

I've had fun with two different Bf109Gs, though...
 
of course its unlikely in the near future, but I am reading forum discussions for years (in Germany) that at least one flyable Ju 87 should/must/will be created soon and this and that piece will be the best to start with (among others the one in Hendon and a wreck on display in Berlin, ( http://www.thomasgenth.de/html/ju_87_r_4.html ) There is also a restorable (?) Me 110 ( http://www.thomasgenth.de/html/me_110_f2_trop.html ). Unfortunately, the museum in Berlin has the policy NOT to restore old warplanes, not even for static display. The STUKA also has the reputation as a "NAZI terror weapon" masterly used by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who was a hardcore supporter of Hitler. After the war, Rudel was active for a notorious right wing political party. That may also play a role when asking for support of a restoration project today (at least in Germany).
 
Yesss... Well, it WON'T stop the British! I've noticed Continentals getting upset and shocked because the RAF's Bf109G-2 had its swastika on, but to us, there is only one way to restore an aircraft, and that is correctly, swastika and all. If it had one than, it gets one now. End of story. Can you imagine watching a war film where the SS did not wear the rune collar patch and sleeve eagle? It would be bloody silly. Well, aircraft are no different.

You can sort of understand the Germans, though. I wouldn't want to be reminded of that sort of thing too much. It's all very well for us - we aren't portrayed as the bad guys...


Genth's website is fascinating. There are more intact Luftwaffe aircraft than one thinks...
 
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