JBS has sent another postcard from Chino Snafu and a couple of new friends. ‘New meets Old’, a nice comparison of the F-22 Raptor and a T-6 Texan. Stevo Hinton in good form refueling the Commemorative Air Force Spitfire earlier today. And a lovely shot of P-51B ‘Boise Bee’ in the early evening orange light just before Stevo takes …
Message from America
One of the TFC volunteers , JBS, is getting some practice in for Flying Legends aircraft handling by helping out at Chino this week end. He should be along later with a few notes . In the mean time he thought we would like a few pictures including one of an old friend, I think it is the sunshine he …
More from the archive
So we are sitting in the excellent Duxford Aviation Society volunteers cafe last Sunday and long term TFC volunteer Gareth passes me a DVD and says “thought you might be interested guv”. Too right! This is part 1. “Friends of TFC” will be able to watch the “air to air” stuff in part 2 later this week. Roll on Flying …
Snafu-return flight
As promised more on Snafu and Stansted. You can see the Look East Article on BBC iplayer here about 10/11 minutes in (UK viewers only) and we have a short video of her return from Stansted in this post: Thanks as ever to the guys in the hangar for allowing us this unique access to a very special aircraft. Next …
May 2013 Airshow – the video
Lots of fantastic pictures on all the aircraft forums with excellent pictures of our aircraft – we thought you might enjoy a reminder about those who were up and about extremely early on Sunday morning (and before) to make sure it was a great experience:
Snafu at La Ferte Alais
P-47 now met up with the Hawk at La Ferte
P-47 departs for France
P-47 departs for La Ferte this afternoon.
25th March Aicraft News Update
On a somewhat Arctic Sunday a few volunteers and TFC staff were in at Hangar number 2, at the same time we were able to catch up on the latest news on aircraft in the hangar from Martin. First is that the Hawk successfully completed an air test in preparation for a flight to La Breguet towards the end of …
Summer is nearly here
Bit more spring cleaning and we found this on a tape from a few years ago, we liked the noise it made – year anyone?
First Flight of the Spring – Hawk 75
Sorry no pictures but reports from the hangar say that the Hawk 75 had a successful test flight just after lunch today. However we have got a picture of the P-47 having engine runs