Crash Posted July 10, 2011 Posted July 10, 2011 Had a great time and nice to meet up with all of you. I am too dim to work out how to upload to the gallery so I used photobucket Quote
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted July 10, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 10, 2011 The Hen party? All in good time Arthur, all in good time Quote
JensenPark Posted July 10, 2011 Posted July 10, 2011 LANCASTER! Nice. Love the group shot. What a good looking group of guys. Looking forward to making my every-other-year return next year. Never seen a p38 fly...very sweet. Quote
Crash Posted July 10, 2011 Posted July 10, 2011 LANCASTER! Nice. Love the group shot. What a good looking group of guys. Looking forward to making my every-other-year return next year. Never seen a p38 fly...very sweet. Sounded sweet too Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted July 10, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 10, 2011 Here's a resized one. Sad one though. The demise of Big Beautifull Doll: (See wingtip on right wing...) This Skyraider hit BBD while coming out of the balbo. BBD went down, pilot bailed and is said to be safe and well... BBD is in a hole in the ground ... Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 I'm amazed he got that down in one piece, too bad about 'Doll though. Jabo Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted July 10, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 10, 2011 I saw him land, he had a lot of speed... use the brakes, nearly a propstrike as the tail lifted. Good pilot, he let it run all the way down the runway, to an area out of the way of other aircraft. Here's what I saw: a twirling/wiggling down piece of something falling down, it could be a wingtip. A Skyraider in a steep dive... throttling up fully, emitting black smoke. A falling dot, of which a tiny red thingy seperated. Canopy opened fully. But it disappeared behing the trees. Now the annoying thing was that the speaker was still going on talking (yes, the French git) as if nothing had happened... as it was the balbo landing he went like 'One after the other coming in now and.... yadayada... it felt Só angry and pissed off.... "No you silly bugger! One is NOT coming home!!" Finally, 15 minutes after the show ended (it ended just a few minutes after the incident) there was an announcement of what happened... and that the bailed pilot was safe... Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 Saturday Pictures... P-40 Air Test (before show) Royal Navy Historic Flight arrival Sea Fury ...and the Swordfish appears through the murk Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted July 10, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 10, 2011 Few more things to say: * Sorry BG about the size of the photo's, but ... successfully resizing them while under the influence of alcohol.. I can't manage. * What's silly Arthur doing hijacking this otherwise perfect thread with pics from a silly 'aircraft' show with friggin' jets in it? Come on! *What a weekend! I'm happy (Fenrir, Painless, BlueBear, and lots of other geezers...) Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 Then the Spitfire scramble opens the show... And the heavens opened...But when the rain stopped, the 7 Spitfires had been joined by a Hurri and three Buchons! Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 As the Spits, Buchons and Hurri returned to land... 3 Skyraiders Corsair Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 Skyraiders taxying. Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 Then it was the turn of the Horsemen in 'Fragile But Agile' and 'February' Bearcat and Corsair coming back More Horsemen Quote
Zooly Posted July 10, 2011 Posted July 10, 2011 Guess the emotion: There was one undesirable at Duxford, rewards for identification: Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 Then it was the turn of the other Mustangs. And Sally-B And the 'Doll comes home (as it happens) for the last time. Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 10, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 10, 2011 The Lancaster Then it's the turn of the Hawks Quote
Artie Posted July 10, 2011 Posted July 10, 2011 A perfect day for the show .. perfect pictures... beautiful planes .. good friends ... tall tales and lots of beer I'm sure ... the only thing missing from this event being as perfect as anything could be ? ... My presence ...lol Maybe next year boys ..maybe next year Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted July 10, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 10, 2011 Good set of pics there Jabo! It's just feels like I was there! Oh, wait a minute... Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 11, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 11, 2011 Someone looking very like you was there FT... More Hawkage Hawker Biplanes Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 11, 2011 Author 2. Administrators Posted July 11, 2011 More Hawkers - Sea Furies this time I'm pretty pleased with this one... Quote
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted July 11, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 11, 2011 and so you should be Nick, excellent work. Quote
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted July 11, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 11, 2011 ~S~ Bombardiers !! Well as I always like to say............ it was a bloody terrible weekend with nothing but boring old airplanes to watch wandering all over the sky (especially the Skyraider ), uninteresting company, dull conversation, no laughter and absolutely no fun !!! CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR !!! Among the many many best moments for me in no particular order were.............. Meeting the chaps. Being called a "GIT" by Sweper Telling the chap in the Duxford ticket office that the two foriegn guys, (Swep and FT) in the Citroen behind me were illegal immigrants and that they had a boot (trunk) full of cannabis. Hearing that the P51 pilot "walked away" Watching the Royal Navy Sea Fury "369" blast past at low level which gave me a small but conservative bowel movement ! The P38 Having the hairs on my arms stand on end due to engine noises and the visuals. Trying to sing the DDz anthem a little drunk in the hotel. Sid's bike. Discussing the relative virtues of the "larger woman" with Tom and so many more........................ Favorite quote While we were in the pub on Saturday trying for around 30 minutes to sort out what we were going to eat, drinking, collecting individual orders, drinking, changing our minds on what type of food to have, drinking some more, collecting individual orders, drinking, revising individual orders, then just settling for 14 x cod and chips............CRASH looked up and said...."you couldn't write this shit!" ~S~ Painless Quote
FS~Valisk Posted July 11, 2011 Posted July 11, 2011 Hi from Skies of Fire chaps! ~S~ Was good to see you all - I'm surprised our paths haven't crossed before as we've been setting up just a few yards past the tank museum for the past 4/5 Legends now - usually with the gang from 80th HeadHunters. Our usual schedule involves camping at a site near Trumpington park & ride and going to the Aces bar at the Eagle in Cambridge on the Friday night. Hope to see you all again next year! Quote
Sweper Posted July 12, 2011 Posted July 12, 2011 Salute mates! Back home after a glorious weekend. Thank´s for your company mates! Really nice to meet you all. Exceeded all my expectations. Flying Legends was a blast. Had many good laughs, (even to the French commentator). Thank´s Friar for your hospitallity, much appreciated! Thank´s Jabo for picking me up at Stansted! Thank you all for beeing such a nice bunch of nice blokes! Really nice pic´s FT, Crach, Zooly, Friar and Jabo. I´m a bit (very!) jealous of your pic of the red-nosed Sea Fury Jabo. I tried but missed every time to frame it. My pic´s are coming (some day) still working on them. Painless, I wondered why that young guy in the ticket booth gave me such a profound and nice smile. I asked him what you told him but I didn´t get any answer. I thought he was gay... Some clarifications (just in case): I did never call anyone a G*T I did not snore I was never drunk I was never behind or lost when we were moving 2km from one side to the other of the airfield. I did never take a cab to keep up I did never complain about an old mans body Swep Quote
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted July 12, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted July 12, 2011 Nice seeing some good photos coming up! There is a limit of 20 per post, just so you know, and if you attach images to post (as opposed to image link from our gallery) there is a maximum post size of 80MB which is quite generous! Gallery images of course can be larger Quote
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