Tweaking the Mustang... Oshkosh 2016

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Nick that shot of the special going through the canyon is just... :ok_hand: Here's mine, nothing fancy, but I like this image as it captures the raw power of the Eagle along with a hint of the cheerful madness that is a RIAT departures day: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50040365457_1f2ec83f60_...

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Keepin' it French!

East Lothian as opposed to South-East Asia, but wherever it's photographed it's a beast of a machine:

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Have some Fury - from Oshkosh last year

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Four years ago I was at Leeuwarden for the KLu Open Dagen. This was the day after one of the Pat Suisse had crashed during their practice/validation flight and people were still a bit stunned, though as we now know, mercifully the pilot was ok. From a photographic perspective the weather conditions ...

Great stuff as always Andy - that last one, the head-on shot of the M-2000...

What a great theme!

Here's a (replica) Me-262, taken shortly after its display at Zeltweg Airpower in 2011 - the only time I've managed to see the damned thing:


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A lot of people were saying at the time that we should have locked down earlier, especially when events like the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool vs Athletico weren't cancelled. I even had a Dutch friend say they were worried about what would happen in the UK as we were so slow to lockdown, that w...

Another survivor from Daks Over Normandy...as Nick says (and as I reviewed for UKAR at the time), quite the worst aviation event I have attended. That said, a whole bunch of DC-3/C-47s together in a field will never be anything other than lovely: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48260619256_f9930...

Like Mr Jennings, I was also in Normandy one year ago for the D-Day 75 stuff. On the day itself, and having clocked that it would be well-nigh impossible to get near the British stuff at Arromanches, I decided to head instead to Saint-Mère Eglise for the American war-camp which had been set-up there...

Su-30 does its Icarus impersonation at MAKS last August, and an F-22 performs a heritage flypast with 3 Mustangs at last year's Oshkosh: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49570485656_5437a05501_o.jpg by Gordon Duncan , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48627326796_e24ee3461b_o.jpg by G...

On this day three years ago I made my first ever visit to the wonderful airshow at La Ferté-Alais, and immediately regretted having left it so long. One of the most picturesque airshow locations in Europe, and with a wonderful line-up to boot. I'm pleased to report that I've been back subsequently, ...

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Soloturk gets his freak on at RIAT '18

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Taken almost exactly one year apart and from almost the exact same spot at Kleine Brogel.

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Friday of last year's RIAT, and the weather was... sub-optimal

Think I'll go with this one. It was a great moment during Anatolian Eagle last year after a good days flying, 111 Filo took us up to their dispersal keen to show off their participating contingent. I think they also let slip they were bringing the pair across for RIAT too: https://live.staticflickr...

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Phlying the Phlag at Oshkosh 2016... the last ever appearance by QF-4Es at the show.

I well remember that F1 - cracking scheme. Here's one of the Luftwaffe's wackier efforts of recent years (and my god that's saying something) - the scheme applied to 38+13 of the Fluglehrzentrum to mark the Phantom passing out of active service. Photographed here departing Wittmund in June 2013 afte...

Oooh nice, who doesn't love a Mustang?

Here's Baby Duck getting airborne at Oshkosh 2016:


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Yes indeed - great topic. Here's another from (where else?) Oshkosh...


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Yes, it's a de Havilland Beaver, but I'd like a bonus point because it's being flown (well, taxied) by none other than Harrison Ford... if you look closely, you can just make out his bushy beard in the left-hand pilot seat. He was at Oshkosh in 2016 to take the 1 millionth member of the 'Young Eagle...

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I was gonna go with the Mi-28, but went for this instead.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49101700117_44c4f0f57a_h.jpg Kamov Ka-52 Alligator - 13 by Nick Jennings , on Flickr The noise this thing made when it was spitting out flares... sounded like a million toads burping. Bizarre, wonderful...