AVIATION ANYONE??

[Roger Pennington]

Here's a few from this year's Goodwood Revival:

The P38 Lightning is a rare sight in this country, this one comes from the Red Bull Collection in Austria:

Red-Bull-Lightning-01.jpg (45.02 KiB) Viewed 1229 times

The variable weather that we had, offered opportunities as the light changed - these were taken in the Saturday evening display - Spitfire Mark IX MH434 and P51D Mustang "Miss Helen" dance amongst the clouds

Evening-Display-02.jpg (42.81 KiB) Viewed 1229 times

Evening Display 01b.jpg (61.02 KiB) Viewed 1229 times

[steve bryant]

stunning photo's Roger.
the chap that introduced me to the idea of coming to S.Africa was a tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber [one of the not so many to survive] and in his lounge he had a painting of Lancaster in amongst the clouds, I can still see the image 35 years on.

[b.c.flat hat]

Thread revival!

Following the Daks from Duxford practising for Tamara, I found a Tiger Moth with a very clever pilot who has flown the outline of a Dakota east of the airfield!

Go on "Flightradar24" to have a look!. It's reg is G-AOEI from Cambridge.

[scimjim]

225B154F-4BFD-44F6-AD57-E4B7BF90A58A.jpeg (184.21 KiB) Viewed 482 times

[Lukeyboy46]

Have had the BBMF flying over my garden all week, nice for the flying season to be back!!

Nice to see the Lancaster back up again too.

[Roger Pennington]

Talking of Dakotas, earlier this afternoon I heard the sound of two radial engines, looking up I saw a lovely vision in polished aluminium, wheels down at circuit height, heading in to land. Only one thing to do then - grab my camera, jump in the car, and head for the airport!

They'd stopped off for coffee, so I didn't have long to wait before they were ready to depart again. they fired up the engines, and got reay to taxi out:

Dakota Shoreham -1607.jpg (159.86 KiB) Viewed 367 times

Taxiing out to the holding point:

Dakota Shoreham -1641.jpg (129 KiB) Viewed 367 times

Beginning the take off roll:

Dakota Shoreham -1678.jpg (80.92 KiB) Viewed 367 times

And they're off!

Dakota Shoreham -1681.jpg (81.22 KiB) Viewed 367 times

Apparently it's the only flying C41A, and it was one of the aircraft involved in the recent "Daks over Normandy" event.

[scimjim]

Apparently it's the only flying C41A

I think it was the only C41A (VIP transport) ever built - along with one C41 (VIP transport)?

[cannonball]

The last time I saw one of these things in the air was nearly twenty years ago when Air Atlantique used them in oil pollution control.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... FXoECAwQBg

[Roger Pennington]

Apparently it's the only flying C41A

I think it was the only C41A (VIP transport) ever built - along with one C41 (VIP transport)?

Yes I think that's right - used by "Hap" Arnold and the Air Staff - it's one of the lowest hours aircraft as well.

Seems amazing looking back, but growing up as a teenager in the mid/late '60s, I lived and went to school under the flightpath to Manchester Ringway Airport. Dakotas, Viscounts, and Vanguards, still made up the majority of the aircraft then.

[Dcrosby13]

Me with my favourite plane, RS71 at Duxford.

[scimjim]

My favourite plane too - they used to fly over us in Cyprus as they came in to land in Akrotiri. We were allowed to see it close up in 1979.

[cannonball]

2300 mph or there about.

[scimjim]

World record of 2,193.2 mph -(Mach 3.3) set 43 years ago!!

One of the pilots wrote that he got to Mach 3.5 evading a missile.

[Dcrosby13]

This is my favourite story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0