Duxford Battle of Britain show

 The annual Battle of Britain airshow was over this weekend. I chose Sunday to go because the BBMF Lanc was originally scheduled to be there today although I believe it was also there yesterday in the end as a replacement for the BBMF Dak which was unable to appear. Anyway, after some forecasts a few days ago for rain today it turned into a sunny warm day but with one drawback - it was quite breezy which disrupted proceedings quite a bit. The Lanc was unable to leave Coningsby as it was too windy there and Duxford had a fairly brisk crosswind which kept quite a few aircraft on the ground unfortunately and resulted in a much changed programme. On the plus side aircraft that I had not previously seen in the air like the Invader, F-86, NH90 and Boomerang all performed as did the Anson that I last saw in New Zealand last year. We had already lost the hoped for Ju52, Storch and Br 1050 Alize before the show and today the Vampire went tech on the flightline and the conditions were too much for the P40s, Wildcat, Gladiator, Lysander, Yak3 and the couple of WWI aircraft down to fly. Also one Hurricane headed back to Europe early due to poor weather expected at home base. The remaining aircraft did however put on commendable displays although the traditional Spitfire tail chase couldn't happen either.

I'll start with a few pictures from the ground. Sadly the Invader, Sabre and Anson were parked on the flight line in a position that meant you could only snap them from crowd line side as the flight line walk did not extend as far along as usual, no idea why this was so.