North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
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Drove to North Weald in the horrible rain all the way up the A3 then the M25 and arrived at about 10am. I waited patiently queuing to park on the grass whilst the Dakota taxiing into position. Then waited to 2pm for the Mustangs to arrive. Just after 2pm and deciding to wait no more, I put my big lens away. Seconds after they arrived.
It was a nice day out in the end but I only took a few photographs in the afternoon but I would definately go again.
At 3pm I drove to Duxford and waited for the Duxford based aircraft to arrive back from North Weald. The majority of the pictures shown here are from Duxford . One Spitfire had an interesting landing which gave me a bit of a flutter whilst photographing it. Does not look like any damage was done.
Thanks for looking.
Martin
The rest
Drove to North Weald in the horrible rain all the way up the A3 then the M25 and arrived at about 10am. I waited patiently queuing to park on the grass whilst the Dakota taxiing into position. Then waited to 2pm for the Mustangs to arrive. Just after 2pm and deciding to wait no more, I put my big lens away. Seconds after they arrived.
It was a nice day out in the end but I only took a few photographs in the afternoon but I would definately go again.
At 3pm I drove to Duxford and waited for the Duxford based aircraft to arrive back from North Weald. The majority of the pictures shown here are from Duxford . One Spitfire had an interesting landing which gave me a bit of a flutter whilst photographing it. Does not look like any damage was done.
Thanks for looking.
Martin
The rest
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Nice shots.
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Nice shots, that landing looked a bit tricky maybe a crosswind?
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Some lovely shooting, major ripple on the spit wing there
Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Nice shots there and great catch on that landing, looks quite hair raising for the pilot and his passenger. Seems he done a good job recovering it.
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Aaron
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Thanks
I can see the ripple in the wing now
Apparently John Romain was in the back seat. The pilot is new. However, whillst I am no expert, I think he did very well to get out of a dodgy situation. It was breezy.
Cheers
Martin
I can see the ripple in the wing now
Apparently John Romain was in the back seat. The pilot is new. However, whillst I am no expert, I think he did very well to get out of a dodgy situation. It was breezy.
Cheers
Martin
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Nice shots, and a stunning capture on the Spit landing, for all the wrong reasons of course!.......
Well done, and thanks for sharing.
Kev.
Well done, and thanks for sharing.
Kev.
Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
I thought the Spitfire with the tricky landing was going to be PL344 Its left wheel didn't locate correctly after take off at North Weald and was partly down when it flew past although it appeared to have been fully up as the Spitfire flew away.
Great set of photos, the 2 seater in difficulty is nicely captured
Great set of photos, the 2 seater in difficulty is nicely captured
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Nice set! Like the spitfire shots, glad there was a happy ending!
Cheers, Jamie.
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Really good captures of the Spitfire incident. Something in there for POTW I should think.
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
LN Strike Eagle wrote:Really good captures of the Spitfire incident. Something in there for POTW I should think.
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Unfortunately due to speculation on another forum, I have decided to remove image four and five of the Spitfire landing.
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Re: North Weald & DX plus tricky spit landing 25-04-10
Look at the damage to the aileron in pic.6.
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bert
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bert
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