Sywell "Piston & Props" - 24/9/16

[mgreenwood]

A few from an enjoyable day yesterday. sadly high winds at Conningsby prevented the BBMF planned flypast from getting airborne.

2016-09-025 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7177 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

2016-09-24 12.47.04 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7215 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7213 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7146 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7151 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

Oh and as it is Pistonheads this 1994 Penseke car also came out to play

IMG_7211 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

Edited by mgreenwood on Sunday 25th September 12:29

[Eric Mc]

Nice selection of aircraft. The BBMF seem to be plagued by crosswind issues at Conningsby.

[Bomma220]

Saw the Lancaster, Spitfire & Hurricane leaving Sywell en route to Podington. They flew right over our house!

[mgreenwood]

Was that today Bomma220 would be just my luck that I decided to go yesterday :-(

The Seafire was a nice surprise can recall ever seeing one before

[drgoatboy]

Some lovely plane shots there! It was a good day!
Would have been nice to have a bit more flying and a few more static planes (Sywell normally has a lot of interesting stuff anyway so I was surprised there was so little there) but the car displays were good. fantastic to see some group B cars (although some replicas) and the guy driving the Cortina had some skill! Some interesting metal on display and the live bands were good too.

The guy doing 155mph on an old scooter (vespa?) was a real highlight!

Some thoroughly terrible photos below (iphone)

Edited by drgoatboy on Monday 26th September 09:06

[mgreenwood]

Thanks for that.

I have some of the cars and will try and upload tonight. The Nissan Nismo GT and the Drag funny car would certainly have held their drivers attention on the day.

Agree about the flying it was limited but i think the wind gusting had a big say in that. Was surprised the Blades were all wrapped up and not up for a display.

[ecsrobin]

Eric Mc said:

Nice selection of aircraft. The BBMF seem to be plagued by crosswind issues at Conningsby.

It's more the limitations for the aircraft. The fighters it's as low as 10knots crosswind (IIRC some are higher but not by much) and the land is 15kt if my memory serves me correctly.

[Eric Mc]

Is that a self imposed limit?

[mrloudly]

Nice orange Mclaren ;-)

[drgoatboy]

mrloudly said:

Nice orange Mclaren ;-)

Ah ha. Yours I take it. I stopped and drooled for some time. Fantastic bit of kit.

[mrloudly]

drgoatboy said:

Ah ha. Yours I take it. I stopped and drooled for some time. Fantastic bit of kit.

Thanks ;-) Went in the Tesla yesterday and lost my voice talking to folk :-)

[Bomma220]

mgreenwood said:

Was that today Bomma220 would be just my luck that I decided to go yesterday :-(

The Seafire was a nice surprise can recall ever seeing one before

Sorry yes it was Sunday, around 14.30.

[mgreenwood]

A few more of the motor vehicles

IMG_7165 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7191 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7207 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

[drgoatboy]

mrloudly said:

Thanks ;-) Went in the Tesla yesterday and lost my voice talking to folk :-)

See you also have a x-bow. That will explain the ktm accessories (hat?) I spotted in the macca

[mrloudly]

mgreenwood said:

A few more of the motor vehicles

IMG_7165 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7191 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

IMG_7207 by mark.greenwood, on Flickr

Was there something wrong with the GTR? Went out of the pits with a huge burnout on Sat and then crawled up and down the runway... Didn't see it run on Sunday.

[mrloudly]

drgoatboy said:

See you also have a x-bow. That will explain the ktm accessories (hat?) I spotted in the macca

You lot don't miss much LOL

[drgoatboy]

Lol, sorry. Fantastic collection you have
As for the gtr the Commentator suggested he just didn't want to ruin his million pound car but I'm less convinced..

[ecsrobin]

Eric Mc said:

Is that a self imposed limit?

No that's an aircraft limit I believe. Your next question is probably "in the war....." they used A style airfields to avoid crosswinds.

[Eric Mc]

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't going to comment further but it does show that there are some advantages operating from an open grass airfield.

[ecsrobin]

Eric Mc said:

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't going to comment further but it does show that there are some advantages operating from an open grass airfield.

They do have a grass strip at Coningsby, however it runs parallel to the main runway and is mainly used for training purposes.