PrivateCustard
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Because you guys are seriously into your vintage stuff!
On Sunday, I made my first trip to Old Warden to see the Shuttleworth Collection. They were running one of their many flying days, where they wheel out a large number of their rare vintage aircraft and let them breath the free air for a bit.
I'd been paying very close attention to the weather and decided that a little cloud wouldn't spoil the day. Light for the photography wasn't an issue as I'd already decided that I was going to go for even more severe prop-blur in my shots than at duxford, by shooting at 1/200s, rather than the fairly noob-ish 1/500 - 1/640 I was using at Duxford!
The morning was breezy, but sunny. I was about the tenth car in the queue, so ended up parking almost on top of the flightline. As the morning went on, it got greyer, and then it spat with rain in the middle of the afternoon.....but ended up as a glorious summer day from about 3pm onwards.
I spent over ten hours there......you'll see why I waited on at the end later
Anyway, here are some of the shots I gathered, in order of time. My hit-rate was down, due to extremely slow shutter speeds, but I exceeded what I was hoping for, again! All in-flight shots were taken with the 7D and 100-400 L.
Faces of yesteryear, shot with my shiny new 24-105 L
BBMF Spitfire Mk.PRXIX 'The Last'. Just getting my settings sorted, and he was going too quick to really adjust many settings!
1936 Westland Lysander. The only airworthy example in the world apparently.
1945 Miles Gemini. A beautiful little aircraft indeed
Miles M3A Falcon Six
1942 Fieseler Storch. My personal favourite of the day. It could land and take off using only about 30 yards of runway, it could also turn on a dime. Never seen anything like it!
1946 Avro Nineteen Anson. I was looking forward to this one. During the morning, before the display actually started, he'd been doing a few circuits and low flyovers for the crowd. I sounds absolutely glorious, a lovely low bellow. This one has presence!
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Because you guys are seriously into your vintage stuff!
On Sunday, I made my first trip to Old Warden to see the Shuttleworth Collection. They were running one of their many flying days, where they wheel out a large number of their rare vintage aircraft and let them breath the free air for a bit.
I'd been paying very close attention to the weather and decided that a little cloud wouldn't spoil the day. Light for the photography wasn't an issue as I'd already decided that I was going to go for even more severe prop-blur in my shots than at duxford, by shooting at 1/200s, rather than the fairly noob-ish 1/500 - 1/640 I was using at Duxford!
The morning was breezy, but sunny. I was about the tenth car in the queue, so ended up parking almost on top of the flightline. As the morning went on, it got greyer, and then it spat with rain in the middle of the afternoon.....but ended up as a glorious summer day from about 3pm onwards.
I spent over ten hours there......you'll see why I waited on at the end later
Anyway, here are some of the shots I gathered, in order of time. My hit-rate was down, due to extremely slow shutter speeds, but I exceeded what I was hoping for, again! All in-flight shots were taken with the 7D and 100-400 L.
Faces of yesteryear, shot with my shiny new 24-105 L
BBMF Spitfire Mk.PRXIX 'The Last'. Just getting my settings sorted, and he was going too quick to really adjust many settings!
1936 Westland Lysander. The only airworthy example in the world apparently.
1945 Miles Gemini. A beautiful little aircraft indeed
Miles M3A Falcon Six
1942 Fieseler Storch. My personal favourite of the day. It could land and take off using only about 30 yards of runway, it could also turn on a dime. Never seen anything like it!
1946 Avro Nineteen Anson. I was looking forward to this one. During the morning, before the display actually started, he'd been doing a few circuits and low flyovers for the crowd. I sounds absolutely glorious, a lovely low bellow. This one has presence!
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