Shuttleworth Fly Navy pt1

As mentioned in a couple of posts below, yesterday was the Shuttleworth Fly Navy show and was my first visit to Shuttleworth since 2017 and I was reminded what a great venue it is for an air show. There is a great museum on site full of airworthy aircraft, a restoration workshop where work in progress on aircraft that will return to the air can be checked out and a viewing area that is close enough to the grass run way not to need a mega zoom to catch the flying display.

The event management was seemingly caught out by too many people arriving 'early' although in this instance 'early' was well over an hour after gates opened but it did lead to some slow queues early on whilst they sorted themselves out. But we were in long before flying started giving plenty of time for a look around and the event was made better still as we shared a good part of the day with my man Gaz along with Mrs Gaz. A shower later on put a literal dampener on things for a while but it brightened up again and we enjoyed a post show drink in the sunshine.

As is often the way there were a couple of tech issues with the Bristol Fighter starting up but not flying due to a magneto problem, The Wildcat taking off to perform with the Corsair and Bearcat not to be seen again and the Gladiator staying on the ground, as did the Boxkite and the really old contingent but no surprises there as the weather really needs to be perfect for them to go aloft.

Anyway, here are some shots of static stuff to get started.