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The Shuttleworth Collection Spring Air Display ~ 1st May 2011

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The first air show of the season didn’t quite go to plan. Although there was beautiful wall to wall blue sky and sunshine with crystal clear atmospheric conditions there was also a 25 to 30 knot wind, gusting at times, blowing across the runway and into the crowd. This severely curtailed the flying display in the afternoon. It may have been the forecast of sunshine and blue sky that attracted the crowds as I had to queue for about 30 minutes to get in which is something I don’t often do when arriving early at Old Warden. The star attraction of the Russian themed air display was the Polikarpov Po.2, which was making its first public air show appearance for which the Soviet Air Attaché from London had been invited to watch.

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Newark Air Museum ~ 26th April 2011

My last few visits to the Newark Air Museum have been for the excellent Night Photo Shoots so a day time photo shoot was overdue. I arrived just after doors opened, East Coast trains running late again. Apart from a few panorama shots, all photos were taken from waving my camera in the air from the end of my long, over 6ft, monopod. After the heat wave of the previous few days, the weather had turned cloudy, windy and cold. Glad I took my gloves with me. As is the way of things, when I got back into Newark to catch my train home, they were still running late, the clouds parted there was blue sky and the sun shone.

IWM Duxford Visit ~ 15th April 2011

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 .........

IWM Duxford Visit ~ 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.

IWM Duxford Visit ~ 2nd April 2011

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