Duxford Flying Legends 2005

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Super shots my leetel eengleesh yorkshire puudin bet the French commentator got up your snout D, I got some reasonable video of the Rolls Royce static displays with the Griffon and two Merlins singing for the crowd not many engines that get a round of applause just for running.
post em when I have cleaned them up a bit.

[plan_D]

I enjoyed the pushing both those commentators were doing - all in good humour. The Frenchie was pushing it a bit at the end though about the Battle of France...don't worry Frenchie - we know you lost!

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He was very knowledgable chap though D wasnt he. It sounded like he had flown most of the aircraft on display at some time of another.
It was just a shame that the tannoy system tended to over power the aircraft noise on my video sound track.
I heard Dutch,French,German,Swedish,US,Polish,Spanish and a couple of other accents that I couldnt regognise and most had travelled in just for the show so it seems to attract an international crowd what would you say D, I reckoned about 20-30,000 people there.

[plan_D]

Yes he seemed to know how most of the aircraft flew, a few historic facts he needed correcting on but we can't be perfect. I saw and heard a lot of nationalities - I found a group of very nice looking German lasses wandering inside one of the hangers...amazingly for once the only girls I was thinking about had under-carriage, a big engine and a propeller on the front.

I'd say easily 20,000...

[plan_D]

Here's some of a Yak-3UPW - which shocked me quite a bit. I didn't expect it to be such an agile bird after all I've read about Soviet aircraft not being on par until the La-5 and La-7 - but this Yak-3 was thrown around like god knows what, I certainly wouldn't want to dog fight with it.

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I agree D it just proves what you read and what you see can vary that Yak was a stunning show great pics by the way mate. Did you see that german mother and daughter in the red outfits the daughter was at least 6'3' and a real looker trouble was she knew it which made her very arrogant.

[plan_D]

Nah - where were you? In the Gold Pass bit?

[trackend]

I went in the gold section for the displays but I went everywhere man walked the flight line 5 times the stalls 3 and visited the toilets once

[evangilder]

Nice shots, d! It's great that you guys moved around at the show. You see more of the action and airplanes that way too. I always try to get out to the shows early to get static shots before the crowds get too thick. It's real easy for me at Camarillo because I work the show. I get there at 8 and the gates don't open until 10. It's great if you can get in early, but the light is usually kind of crummy.

[plan_D]

I walked the flight line twice - we got into the place sometime between half 8 and 9 - but since I hadn't been there before, I went into all the museums so it must have been about 11 by the time I got on the flight line.

[plan_D]

Here's some of the only German aircraft in the show. Sorry for the poor air shots - as I said my camera is only 3x optical zoom. The pilot put on a great show though despite the fact during some of her moves I was trying to take pictures of aircraft taxiing.

[sunny91]

super,

sunny

[plan_D]

This is just for lanc...

[the lancaster kicks ass]

let's have more of your lanc piccies guys!

and trackie, the very first picture you posted in this topic of the lanc you've titled as "cit of leeds", are you aware she's called the "City of Lincoln"?

[plan_D]

I refuse to show anymore Lancaster pictures because you just appreciate my picture taking.

No, it's actually because I only have one more and it's refusing to work.

But here's some more...of other aircraft...