Former Man City player, Colin Bell

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1. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48002762588_f735ac798f_b.jpg Daks over Duxford by Dan Elms , on Flickr 2. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48037736763_995981409d_b.jpg Little Egypt by Dan Elms , on Flickr 3. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48015228593_f0aa9e1514_b.jpg DaksOverDuxford-5...

I'd echo psquiddy's comment, in that there are some excellent shots in there... Well done for making the most of pretty much the most crappiest of years!!

Nice shots Tom

Nice light... Trust the French to show us what the RAF should have bought... (a tanker with a boom!)

Duxford turned down a Nimrod and a Hercules because they had no where to park them so all this talk of a 747 going to Duxford and its runway lengths is meaningless. Can't quite get my head round the Imperial War Museum turning down a Nimrod and a Hercules - 2 types that were, and have been in use b...

Stunning images... Those first 3 shots are something else.

Reading between the lines of the IWM press release, I would say that they wanted more money flowing back to them than TFC were willing to pay. They talk of exciting changes to their own Air Show programme for next year... Also, sounds like somewhere else found Covid to be a very good reason / excuse...

I have a feeling this is all down to the IWM.

They have apparently been angling for a long while for all airshows to cease on the site.

A big shame - where else can the show go?

North Weald has been suggested, but is, I think a non-starter because of the closeness of the M11.

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Fri 07 Aug 2020, 5:39 pm

very nice Dan, and as Peter aid above - that cloud certainly made for some good backgrounds

which zone were you in BTW?
Andy

Thanks Andy,

We were in Zone A - about 6/7 rows back from the front. Still a very good view though!

Dan

August 2nd saw The Shuttleworth Collection host their second drive-in airshow. The participation list was late coming out, but that didn't stop the show being a sell-out, and those in attendance were treated to a cracking display. The highlights for me were the BAE Jetstream, displayed so well by Do...

These were taken by my Dad at either Heathrow or Gatwick Airport during August / September 1981 (I would have been 4 1/2 so probably a little early for me to have been able to see over the side of the old car park!). This aircraft was later purchased by the RAF and registered as ZE704. https://live....

The master at work?


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Hitching a ride...

This has to be the best one?

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Just saw what looked like 4 contrails heading over Colchester - anyone know what they were / are?

They were high up - and I was driving at the time (hence the question!)

Thanks

Saw earlier that the ex Red Arrows Gnat at Cotswold Airport suffered a smashed canopy...

I've chosen this one, of one of my favourite aircraft types - the Dakota / DC-3. Taken at the Daks over Duxford event, which even though it failed to live up to all the hype, and had many, many documented problems will still live long in the memory banks... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/480377...

Seems like some of those old planes might feel the wind beneath their wings once more...

Reds Rolling wrote:That nutter from Big Jet TV is stood on his van live streaming the landings (and go arounds) at Heathrow!

Wish someone would stick a sock in his mouth to shut him up! lol

WOW...

Some stunning images in there...!


Dan

Looks good Andy...

Some cracking shots there

Dan

I’ve not really noticed a drop in quality - I have however noticed a massive drop in terms of the number of views that images get, post 1000 photo limit implementation and the other changes...

Cracking set of images - that first shockwave one

Love the shots of the Hind as well

Dan

Amp wrote:Norfolk?

Norfolk, which is the neighbouring county to Suffolk.

Depending on where in the UK the original poster lives, parts of Norfolk could be a lot closer to Lakenheath / Mildenhall