Duxford Visits

When I arrived at Duxford there were two Spitfire’s and two Buchon’s sitting outside the ARCo workshops. A good start to the day already. As I was getting some record shots, Terence and his handlers made a dash for the hangars. It was a case of ‘Quick, follow that Tug’. As I was following Terence, I made a quick detour into hangar 2 to catch up on the latest on the TFC P-47. It’s almost ready to stand on its own three wheels. The doors to 3 hangar were open and Terence was playing musical aeroplanes. It moved the HAC Spitfire/Hurricane into the sunshine to extract the Mk 1 Spitfire to take it down to ARCo. Later on as I emerged from 5 hangar, I looked down towards the M11 end and could just make out the prop on the ‘Desert’ Buchon ...........

9th April 2011

I wasn’t intending going on a visit to Duxford, but with wall to wall sunshine forecast it was to good an opportunity to miss to get to grips a bit more with my recently acquired Sony Alpha A580. A start has been made of dismantling ‘Mary Alice’, the B-17 in the American Air Museum. The interesting bit is that they are not going to take the glass wall down to move it to Hangar 5, but instead they are going to move it a piece at a time through the emergency exit doors either side of it. Apart from the Duxford plastic Spitfire returning home, the Catalina has now moved outside after winter maintenance in Hangar 2. There was also a bit of a fly-in with visiting aircraft from France and Belgium.

2nd April 2011

As Fotopic.net has gone into liquidation so consequently the web gallery I used to have on it has ceased to exist. This is just a test page for a new web gallery.