Duxford Flying Legends June 30/July 1st

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Anyone going? think it's £31 to get in, and then usual extras, BBMF on Saturday only, but the draw for me will be a P-38 and the newly restored P-47 Jug - "Snafu"

http://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/public-d...

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Wheres The Hill? Is that the slope upto the Land Warfare hall?

The smoke pods on the wingtips really emphasised the power and agility of the Sea Fury, but what I really 'liked' was the way the smoke formed rings after.

Did you see the Ju-52 and DC3, and Sikorsky S-38?

The Fieseler Storch was great, didn't realise the Germans created VTol in WW2, it's amazing to see it just hover.

Edit to correct the Junkers

Edited by Mutley on Tuesday 3rd July 09:07

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A couple of shots:

Balbo


Sally-B + P-47 'SNAFU'

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Thanks Eric Now corrected to Ju-52
Teach me to post when brain is telling me to sleep!

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Simpo Two said:

The 'balbo' photo is impressive but the formation/s are odd - is it chosen for simplicity? Vics or finger fours would have been more authentic.

Thanks, The groupings, according to the commentator, are for aircraft of similar speeds.

For once I actually listened to the commentry, and came away with two new bits of useless information.

Balbo's are named after an Italian General who was the first to put together large formations of 20+
Airports are so named because that was where commercial flying boats 'docked'

Edited by Mutley on Tuesday 3rd July 12:39

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I liked the explanation of snafu as well, made me laugh, English commentator stops, the Franchman, ah yes...... At least the team didn't make any attempt to apologise, they just let it go.

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Either way, it's an example of bloody appalling formation flying!

It's not rehearsed, so is only a loose formation

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Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Having sat on the RAF's Airshow Committee as a Group rep I can tell you that unrehearsed displays do not get approval for RAF/FAA/AAC airshows nor for RIAT. This being the case, I find it astounding (and bordering on the criminal) that IWM Duxford thinks that this is acceptable, especially in light of the total fk up that resulted in the P51/Skyraider collision last year.

In which case, you should know the difference between unrehearsed and un-briefed.

Unrehearsed is how the commentators described it, as they do not know who/what will be airworthy on the day, and as i understood, it is a bit of levity. Each element takes off together, they then form up - very loosly - fly past en masse, then break and each element has a high speed flypast before breaking and landing- no element started their run until clear

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pb63 said:

Plane of the day for me was the p38 lightning. Fantastic.

Agree, and it looks great in the polished metal.


Sikorsky S-38

Bouchons

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Skyraider was pumping out some awful black smoke and didn't sound right as it taxied.