On this day 57 years ago....

 

Flown types in the same photo...

During the recent evening photoshoot at Duxford I caught two types I'd flown in, in one frame.
(P-51D/TF-51D and DC3/C-47)

A little digging produced a shot from 2019 when Duxford was temporary home to a lot of DC3/C-47s and a certain Spitfire I'd flown in a couple of months earlier and one image of Spitfire MJ627 together with Dakota KK116 which I'd flown in back in 2015 and 2006 respectively...

Original photographer unknown 

🥵 Warm Warbird Wednesday Wander

A few snaps from a warm Duxford today...
Hurricane BE505 landed just as I reached southside for lunch.
Sally B still carrying her 100th BG tail markings.

 

 

Sally B tribute...

To mark her formation flypast with a KC-135 of the 100th ARW at this weekends airshow, B-17 Sally B had the 'White Square D' tail code applied for the 100th BG, "The Bloody Hundredth"...
I think it looks just right and hope they keep it on for a while.

 

Nice little flypast - BBMF Dak ZA947

The distant thrum of radials had me drop my lunch and rush outside...
ZA947 was circling my village prior to it's display slot at Duxford.
Cheers chaps 👍👏

 

"Duxford In A Different Light : The Flying Bulls" - Part 2

Some more shots, in no particular order*, of yesterday evenings photoshoot... 

(*Blogger has loaded them in reverse order once again!...)

Not often I snap two types together that I have flown in... 

"Smoke ON!"

Flying Bulls P-38 engine run and "smoke on" display yesterday evening...

 

 

 

 

Douglas C-41A "Hap-Penstance"

Douglas C-41A (N341A) was a short notice stand-in for the photo shoot at Duxford this evening. As it is the 70th anniversary of my first flight in a Silver City Airways C-47 from Lydd in Kent to Wick in Caithness I jumped at the chance to have a look inside...
I suspect that the level of comfort is above that of the C-47 we flew in back in 1956!...

Duxford In A Different Light : The Flying Bulls

Some shots of the engine runs this evening...
Eskil Amdal at the controls.

 

Pre Airshow Weekend Wednesday...

Some shots from the airfield today...
Seeing the Red Bull fleet parked up awaiting the weekend was a bonus - not sure when I last saw Nooky Booky IV but it was before she was added to the RB'ers...