Hangar Talk I can only liken the feeling in the week following Flying Legends to climbing the steepest and highest mountain; (months in the planning and weeks in the execution) only to throw yourself off at the top once you reach the summit, such is the anti-climax post FL. This years FL brought us some extra challenges that we took …
Pre Legends Wednesday
Just like a number 9 bus, all quiet and then they all take off together! great day, great flying, hope to see you all at the week end
La Ferte 2016
Our photographer sent these through last night, as he is a photographer he doesn’t do writing so we will have to guess what was going on. First off, Bob and Chris M. take a well earned rest having just enjoyed the best of French cuisine. Next up Roy (you can never be too careful) Smith finishes re-arming EP120, “just in …
New Miss Velma film
Our colonial engineer Lawrence was up in Miss Velma recently with his old super 8 cine camera. We put the results on our Facebook page but if you don’t do Facebook here is the video:
Happy New Year
First engine run of 2016 after enqine maintenance . Fighter Collections TF-51 Miss Velma caught in a rare glimpse of sunny weather between showers at Duxford.
XIV out today
We have a catch up from last week still to post but here we go with today’s activities: The XIV was out for a spin for a display today, with the usual suspects in to help.
The day after yesterday
With all our efforts for the last few months focused on a certain weekend in July (Flying Legends) the morning after is somewhat of an anticlimax and leaves one thinking what on earth do we do now …..? Well the first thing to do is to thank everybody for their time and contribution (our volunteers not only give up their …
View from the Office
Martyn decided he wanted to go to Holland at the end of May. As luck would have it our Mustang and Corsair were going that way.
Fair stood the wind for France
We are grateful for contributions from our Friends in France, John Fox and Fred of FBD Studio for these contributions both on the ground (featuring a rather shy and retiring TFC engineer ) and in the air with Nick proving anything a Spitfire can do the Gladiator can too! Just to say both are now back at Duxford after their …
A Busy Sunday – the video
We ran the moving picture cameras while the aeroplanes ventured into the sunlight on Sunday and caught a few engine runs (we have cheated and included the Kestrel engine in the Nimrod from earlier in the week as well as), Spitfire and Wildcat but we didn’t think that would be a problem.