Yeovilton air day

[shouldbworking]

So I had a good day out and in true British fashion got myself impressively sunburnt. No good pictures of the air displays as I was only using a point and shoot. I'm a sucker for lens flare though so heres a picture or two.

Parachute display team


The Brietling wing walkers


I don't believe these need any introduction




The F16s were fabulously loud and I was particularly impressed by their displays.

The Harrier display surprised me as I'm sure I read a discussion on here about them being unable to sustain a hover for over 30 seconds. Granted the guy was without stores and probably a light load of fuel, but it sustained a hover or as good as for around 3 minutes. There was some unnerving looking white smoke / steam venting forward of the engine ducts but I guess this is normal

[Mister V]

I thought they only carried enough water for 90 seconds of hover?

[Eric Mc]

Had a good day there as well. I didn't actually spend a lot of time watching the flying (apart from the Vulcan). I spent a lot of time wandering around the static display and chatting to the verious flight crew and aircraft owners (which is my favourite part of air shows these days). I had a really interesting chat with the team whio are carying out an archeological style paint strip down of the FAA museum's Grumman Martlet (Wildcat). They are also reconstructing a Gloster Sea Gladiator for the museum.

Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 12th July 08:04

[Chrisgr31]

Eric Mc said:

I had a really interesting chat with the team whio are carying out an archeological style paint strip down of the FAA museum's Grumman Martlet (Wildcat). They are also reconstructing a Gloster Sea Gladiator for the museum.

I had that process explained to me at the museum on Friday. Had a wonderful tour of it, and Haynes Motor Museum all in the course of a days work. Those running them are real enthusiasts and so lucky to have jobs doing something they love with a passion and getting paid for it!