The Flying Legends airshow made a welcome return at Church Fenton/Leeds East Airport. It was organised at fairly short notice due to having to find a new venue after many years at Duxford. Unfortunately, this year it clashed with RIAT and Goodwood - something that should not happen next year. In spi...

Here are a few more pictures from the same visit. A surprising addition to the collection was the Meteor. Graham https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4599/25534772068_7a1692e2f1_b.jpg Meteor NF.11 WD592 N94749 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4633/25517585868_b011c1edd3_b.jpg F-105D 61-0146 https://farm5.st...

On a trip through California in 2000, I made an effort to get into Edwards AFB to see the AF Flight Test Centre. In those days, you had to contact them in advance and tell them on which date you wanted to visit. It was all pretty straightforward apart from planning your trip to arrive at the base on...

Thanks for the comments. I certainly enjoyed it even though parts were not open. I don't know how HeyfordDave111 managed it in 90 minutes as the site is massive. BTW there are 2 Tridents on display with one fuselage in the boneyard. I was definitely wilting a bit in the heat with no shelter and nowh...

Great photos, perchance do you have any more of the T-33 Here are a couple of pictures of the T-33. They were taken at Duxford and are the only ones I have of the aircraft in these colours. I don't have any more of the aircraft at West Malling - you couldn't afford to take dozens of pictures with f...

Thanks for the update, Ken, and the links to your visit. The Museum building was closed as well as the Cavern - I obviously missed out there. I mustn't complain though as there were probably still a couple of hundred planes to see.

Graham

This year we went on a tour of China, something my wife has wanted to do for many years. As this was a once in a lifetime trip and one of the destinations on the tour was Beijing, I realised that this would be my only chance to visit the China Aviation museum. I decided to give a temple visit a miss...

As threatened, here are a few more pictures from the 1991 West Malling display Graham https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4369/35900231863_a7b9cb0a7e_b.jpg Venom https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4359/36571426911_e1f15878cd_b.jpg B-17 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4352/36314768860_0a75f591dc_b.jpg B-25 Duk...

Thanks for the kind words. My Flickr link is m . I'm trying to put a variety of pictures on Flickr and not just the usual suspects. These incude pictures taken in the 1960's to pictures taken overseas. It does take a little time to sort them all out. I will be posting some more pictures from West Ma...

I missed the parachute drop as I only attended the shows from 1989 to 1994. 1994 was the last show, probably caused by atrocious weather that year which meant that the organisers lost money. The Sunderland that was mentioned was from 1989, possibly one of the last times that a Sunderland displayed i...

Who can forget the Great Warbird Air Displays organised by the Sally B team. They were an excellent combination of Warbirds, classic civil aircraft and modern military aircraft. This display in 1991 was at West Malling before houses were built on it. These pictures were taken on the live side so mig...

Here are a a few pictures of some of the Lightnings as requested. Graham https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4453/37989895116_665ce9917c_b.jpg Lightning 2 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4499/37989894426_e218274f3c_b.jpg Lightning 1 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4507/37989894896_f11ccf9136_b.jpg Lightnin...

At the 1986 Mildenhall show, there were 10 RAF phantoms on show. I assume that it might have been some sort of Anniversary. Here are some of them. Graham https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/36598501826_2499554d3a_b.jpg Phantom 1 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4335/36507158631_fafe44c579_b.jpg Phanto...

Here is the final set from the airshow. It wasn't the biggest show on the calendar but usually had something worth seeing. - now another lost venue. Graham https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4338/35781489704_592f352d2f_b.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/WvTuhh]Tornado https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4373/36570...

Apologies if you have been unable to access my previous topics. I'm afraid that photobucket has blocked them all and as I don't wish to pay to share my pictures, I'm now trying out Flickr. This will be my first attempt to post using Flickr so I hope that I have got it all sorted. These pictures were...

Here are a few more pictures from the show. The show must have occurred between Alconbury losing their RF-4's and re-equiping with A-10's as neither of the types were on show. Of interest is the building work going on in the background. The only building work presently being undertaken at Alconbury ...

As a change from the recent IAT posts, here are some pictures from the RAF Alconbury show in 1987. Graham http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb447/stirlingeffort/Alconbury%201987/Buccaneer%201_zpstmrf9pil.jpg http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb447/stirlingeffort/Alconbury%201987/Cobra_zpsbb6ul84...

We seem to be losing the thread a little. If the lovers of all things Wessex would like to see more pictures from the 1978 Lee-on Solent show, you can go to the following link http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=49599 I have added a few more pictures from the Shuttleworth show. All...

Following the interest in the Sea Heron, I thought that this picture might be of interest as well. It was taken at an airshow at Lee-on-Solent in 1978. Admittedly, it was taken as the aircraft was taking off but did not display. Graham http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb447/stirlingeffort/Shuttle...

And now for something completely different. One of the most enjoyable shows that I attended last year was Shuttleworth's "Fly Navy" day which featured the mighty Sea Vixen. I was surprised, when looking through some old pictures, to see that I attended a show with a similar theme in 1989. ...

Here are a few more pictures of the Canberras on display at Wyton on those two open days. Sorry if there is not much variety in these pictures! Graham http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb447/stirlingeffort/Wyton%20Canberras%201983-84/PR.7%20WT538%20b_zpsgjl36a2i.jpg Canberra PR.7 WT538 http://i120...

Georgeconna wrote:Canberra PR.9 XH170 - Gate guardian, now scrapped

Is that frame on the gate guard really gone, It look great 1.5 years ago when I stopped to take a few photos.

Grovelling apologies! My memory is failing me - XH170 is indeed the only survivor of the 3 one-time gate guards.

I believe that RAF Wyton was one of the last, if not the last, Canberra stations. I visited Wyton in 1983 and 1984 on their open days and, as expected, there were plenty of Canberras on display. Here is a selection from those 2 days. Unfortunately, the negatives have suffered over the past 30 years....

Yes, the burgers and Polish sausages were something else. Some years ago at one of the American Air Days at Duxford (do they still have them BTW?), I asked some of the American servicemen why they didn't do a similar barbeque there. They repilied that the museum wouldn't let them. I suppose that the...

Here is another blast from the past. These were taken at Mildenhall in 1996. They are all static shots as I only had a basic camera at the time. The negatives have also deteriorated a bit as over the years as well. Graham http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb447/stirlingeffort/Mildenhall%201996/A-1...