Winding up
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Tuesday 26 July 2022
Monday 25 July 2022
Duxford - The Americans
Saturday was the latest flying day at Duxford - dedicated to The Americans who have operated from the airfield. I enjoy these flying days which are effectively small flying displays with all the usual museum attractions and smaller crowds than a full blown flying display. This time there was the added bonus of my fellow enthusiast and good mate Gaz coming down from Notts to share the day.
There was a little anxiety early on when my local motorway was closed due to a serious accident and my 'plan B' route was out of the question due to traffic chaos at Dover. Fortunately diverting through Canterbury found roads fairly quiet and , although taking 30 minutes or so longer than normal, the rest of the journey was fairly uneventful and I was at Duxford a little after 11 and Gaz was there soon after.
We had plenty of time to tour the hangars, check on the Firefly restoration which should apparently be flying within a couple of years and then watch the flying display. The weather was pretty good and as there was a fair sized crowd we hung around a little while to watch the aircraft being towed back to the hangars.
All in all a great day out, made better by the company, and a decent run back got me home in time for tea.
As is often the case I managed to take heaps of pictures so here's the first of multiple posts with some hangar shots to get things started.
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Friday 22 July 2022
Off for a service
The BBMF Dakota left Coningsby today for the ARCO hangar at Duxford for depth maintenance so I may see her there tomorrow. Wonder if it will be getting a new colour scheme.
Thursday 21 July 2022
Coming to the UK?
I've seen that Huuricane Mk1 P3351 registered in France as F-AZXR, which has recently been up for sale, is coming to the UK. I wonder if it is to form the basis of anoth two seat conversion as I know that the operators of the only two-seater at present want another one. Time will tell I guess.
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