The Fighter Collection

Category: flying-legends

  • Last Airshow of the Year ?

     

    Every December there is one more airshow that appears on the calendar, The Virtual Festival of Aerobatic Teams is held on the first weekend in December and is for the pilots and fans of flight simming the world over.

     

    Any virtual pilot interested in aerobatics will know the name VFAT, it is a name synonymous with quality, excitement and an anticipation. Past VFAT events have featured many of the worlds most popular virtual aerobatic teams in a showcase of both real and fictional displays, solos and team acts, and this year is no different!  Flying starts today at 5.00 GMT, kick ing off with Blaze and the F-16 Viper East Demo and features many popular solo and formation teams. The full schedule is available here : http://www.virtual-aerobatics.com/live-shows/

     

    This year the show is being streamed by our friends at Virtual Aerobatics, some of you may have come and tried out DCS with them here at Duxford, Over the course of the weekend you will see pilots flying all of the modules that they were demonstrating here. Plus some new ones yet to be released!

     

    They are also running a number of competitions over the weekend including the chance to get your hands on some tickets for Flying Legends 2014 among other things!

     

    The display runs all weekend and we look forward to seeing you there!

  • Flying Legends 2014 Trailer and Tickets

    We are pleased to announce that the Flying Legends 2014 Tickets, Gold Pass and Information pages are now live.  Just  click HERE.   As usual we will be adding more  information and news as time progresses.

    As  ever we  have a  beautifully  filmed trailer  by  Steve  Connor who  has  done  us  proud again:

  • Sunday 4th August Update

    First, we have sent an email to all recent joiners of FofTFC with log in details. please let us know if you have not received an email and think you should have.

    Today at Duxford:

    If you looked in the hangar from a tall ladder like this you may have felt nothing was going on.

    But if you looked a bit closer you would have seen the space where the Americans had taken the P-47 to bits (they had completed their Sunday chores by 10:00 and were off to find a good honest English fry up for breakfast).

    You would then have spied the progress on the Corsair engine rebuild:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Elsewhere the Hellcat was receiving some much deserved spit and polish:

    and finally of note the P40-F has propellor removed to investigate an oil leak

     

    If you have a look on Flying Machines  TV  you tube  pages you will see they have  done a great trailer  for the  upcoming  Legends 2013   DVD.

  • Next Year

    Flying Legends 2014 will be held on 12th and 13th July 2014

  • Sunday

    Another day of great flying! Just one pic tonight and then we will have more news tomorrow.

    Thanks to everyone who popped in to the friends tent – hope you all enjoyed the show as much as we did.

  • Friday 12th update

    More on proceeding later, just to say we should be on the ITN news tonight.

  • July 11th – Final thoughts

    What a  great day, if you look on the various  forums  I am sure they are  filling up with  photos of the action from today.

     

    A few  housekeeping notes for you:

     

    The FofTFC guys will have a stall in   hangar 2 on Friday.  Your  chance to join FofTFC and get that  priority access to the  Flightline Walk and entry to the FofTFC  marquee (see below) over the  weekend.  Also a  chance to  get the  all new 2013   polo shirt or a FofTFC  hat ready  for the week end – oh yes you  can talk warbirds as well – we  quite like that sort of  thing – but please  no questions   when will the  beaufighter fly!

    Next, the FofTFC marquee – all ready for the week end

     

    and if  you were there tonight at about  21:20 looking out at this  view your  evening would  be  disturbed  by the  sound of the  Horsemen returning – that is an exclusive you won’t  find on other  sites 🙂

    Be  back with  more from Duxford  tomorrow

  • Thursday 11th July – update 2

    Horsemen are off for a practice and Eric has brought in the Flying Bulls Corsair

  • Thursday 11th July update 1

    Don’t panic : Just  a reminder, tickets are  still available on the  gate both  days  so if you  haven’t already  booked you can still attend and enjoy our  display this weekend, weather looks  great as  well!

  • July 10th – update 3 Spitfire MkXIV

    Following on from our   weekend record of engine runs here is the  roar of the  Griffon in the Mk XIV