{"id":2008,"date":"2013-10-09T22:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T21:36:12","slug":"duxford-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/duxford-40-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Duxford 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While TFC prepares for the traditional airshow this weekend there are a number of volunteers at TFC\u00a0 who were at Duxford 40 years ago as volunteers with\u00a0 EAAS. These are a few photos we believe from that event and the airfield at that time. It is possible the airfield is wearing better than us! As usual we will have our stall in the hangar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So memory\u00a0 lane then , the control tower wasn&#8217;t always as\u00a0 posh as it is\u00a0 now:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/duxford-40-years-ago\/dx_control_tower_01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2013\" title=\"dx_control_tower_01\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_control_tower_01-1024x926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_control_tower_01-1024x926.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_control_tower_01-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 hangars weren&#8217;t as\u00a0 full (or as warm) as they are now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/duxford-40-years-ago\/glider_01-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2015\" title=\"glider_01\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/glider_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/glider_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/glider_01-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People still took\u00a0 photos from the naughty\u00a0 field<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/duxford-40-years-ago\/dx_windsock_01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2014\" title=\"dx_windsock_01\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_windsock_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_windsock_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dx_windsock_01-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and what it was all about<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/duxford-40-years-ago\/mosquito_02-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2017\" title=\"mosquito_02\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mosquito_021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mosquito_021.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mosquito_021-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All pics\u00a0 courtesy of a\u00a0 Boots 126 instamatic &#8230;time moves on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While TFC prepares for the traditional airshow this weekend there are a number of volunteers at TFC\u00a0 who were at Duxford 40 years ago as volunteers with\u00a0 EAAS. These are a few photos we believe from that event and the airfield at that time. It is possible the airfield is wearing better than us! As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}