Little Gransden 2014 (non-DSLR) - Updated

[Hatstand]

An excellent day out at Little Gransden yesterday. Cracking good displays, from a wide variety of planes - and some nutty and entertaining commentary. Weather was kind - not too windy, and high cloud base, so no problems for the flying program. A bit grey for photography though, and a bit chilly too.

The place was absolutely heaving, I'm guessing the 2 Lancs and the Vulcan had something to do with that. Loved the dirty pass and wing-over from the Vulcan. The Slingsby was apparently a stand-in for an aircraft that went tech - but the pilot put on an excellent display, with lots of amazing negative-G manoeuvres.

Anyway, here's some of my photos, I think I've included everything that displayed, and in pretty much the order they appeared:

1. Spitfire


2. Tiger Moth


3. Cessna 172


4. Lauren Richardson Pitts


5. Solo Swip Twister


6. FX Glider


7. Team Raven


8. Cessna Bird Dog, Navion, Auster AOP


9. Navion


10. Fennec


11. Spartan Executives


12. Canadian Lancaster "Vera"


13. The two Lancs together


14. The two Lancs together


15. The two Lancs together


16. Mustang


17. Mustang


18. Mustang


19. "Normandy Bears" L4 Cubs


20. Slingsby


21. Neville's Flying Circus Tiger Moth


22. Neville's Flying Circus Chipmunk


23. Neville's Flying Circus Emeraude


24. Neville's Flying Circus Jackaroo


25. Trig Team Pitts


26. Trig Team Pitts


27. Storch


28. One Red Sparrow Chipmunk. They were down to 3 planes, after one had a problem and landed again shortly after take-off.


29. Mark Jeffries Extra 330


30. Global Stars


31. 1/4 scale RC Extra. Seemed to fly much further apart from the real Extra this year, only a few good chances to get both in shot... and I missed them ;_;


32. RV8


33. Vulcan


34. Vulcan


35. Vulcan - Dirty Pass


36. Vulcan


37. Vulcan


38. Microlight


39. Yak 52


40. Hurricane


All taken with a Panasonic FZ1000 non-DSLR bridge camera, with a red dot sight fitted.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you saw something of interest!

[Hatstand]

Here's a few more, stuff on the ground...

41. Lauren Richardson and her Pitts


42. Cessna Bird Dog


43. Yak 52


44. Chippie


45. Waco YKS-7


46. Auster AOP


47. Flitzer

[Weather Watcher]

Nice series of photos - gives a good idea of the day. I like the 3rd Vulcan shot.

David

[PanamaMan]

Not much to complain about there! An impressive debut for the FZ1000

[sdad]

What's a dirty pass?

[Hasboman]

What's a dirty pass?

Gear and flaps down (often arrester hook too if naval).

[sdad]

Thanks. I see why the name!