Shuttleworth evening airshow pic's
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I went to tonights evening airshow at Old Warden airfield. It was brilliant! Sadly the flight in a Tiger Moth I'd booked for my Dad's birthday was cancelled due to bad weather earlier, but this afternoon the clouds parted for the show 
Anyway, here's some pic's I snapped. It was my first attempt at photographing planes, and my shutter speed was too fast so the prop's look a bit... still! I got the hang of it for the last photo, typical!!
Anyway, here's some pic's I snapped. It was my first attempt at photographing planes, and my shutter speed was too fast so the prop's look a bit... still! I got the hang of it for the last photo, typical!!
Edited by srob on Saturday 16th July 22:55
xxplod said:
Great pics!
I was going to fly in today but decided not to due to the weather.
Any ideas when the next one is?
http://www.shuttleworth.org/tickets/allevents.aspI was going to fly in today but decided not to due to the weather.
Any ideas when the next one is?
Shame you didn't fly in, I'd have papped you! I was like a man posessed, couldn't take enough pictures
What do you fly? The polished plane with green nose trim was a spectator that flew in to watch!
I'd definately go back, I'm really keen to see (and hear!) some of the earlier stuff. Sadly - although the weather had cleared a bit - it was still too windy to fly the really early planes.
I was most fascinated by the engines. I ride vintage (1920's) motorbikes, and loads of the planes had 'bike connections, which was interesting. One of my favourites was a fairly 'normal' sized plane that had a 398cc ABC flat twin engine. It didn't look like it was man enough to fly and sure enough on reading the blurb it was launched 'with the help of 11 bystanders'!!
This is it:
There was also a glider, which initially looked to be something from immediately post WW1. Having read the card though, I think it was from the mid 1930's and was used by the Luftwaffe to train pilots as they weren't allowed to train in 'proper' planes. Have I got that right?!
I was most fascinated by the engines. I ride vintage (1920's) motorbikes, and loads of the planes had 'bike connections, which was interesting. One of my favourites was a fairly 'normal' sized plane that had a 398cc ABC flat twin engine. It didn't look like it was man enough to fly and sure enough on reading the blurb it was launched 'with the help of 11 bystanders'!!
This is it:
There was also a glider, which initially looked to be something from immediately post WW1. Having read the card though, I think it was from the mid 1930's and was used by the Luftwaffe to train pilots as they weren't allowed to train in 'proper' planes. Have I got that right?!
At the end of the display on 3rd July this year, the weather conditions were good enough to get the "oldies" out...
Bleriot (apparently the oldest aircraft still flying in the world)
I think this is a Deperdussin, it managed a couple of hundred feet in altitude
The oldest flying British Aeroplane, the Blackburn Monoplane
Bleriot (apparently the oldest aircraft still flying in the world)
I think this is a Deperdussin, it managed a couple of hundred feet in altitude
The oldest flying British Aeroplane, the Blackburn Monoplane
Tootles the Taxi said:
The oldest flying British Aeroplane, the Blackburn Monoplane
Interestingly, we were noting how many of the planes had (or should have had) Blackburne engines. We have a 1928 Rex Acme bike, with a 350cc OHV Blackburne single cylinder engine. At least two of the V-twin Blackburne engines had the same head and pushrod angles, which are quite distinctive. When we came across the Blackburn plane we thought it was the same company, until we noticed the lack of an 'e' on the end!
ABC made a lot of motorcycles early on (and I believe were something to do with Sopworth?), and their engines seemed popular in flying machines. The Flying Flea that was hanging from the rafters had a Scott two-stroke engine which was air-cooled. The motorcycles were water cooled (we've a pair of 1928 Scotts). There were also a number of JAP flat twins, which I'd never heard of and I'm suprised never found their way into Brooklands specials!!
Lots of Anzani engines too, which are enough to make vintage bike fans go weak at the knees!
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