The Late Evening News From Duxford ~ July 10th 2011

[bomberflight]

Phew ! My 14th straight day of taking pictures at Duxford !

I won't be sorry to stop lugging my camera bag around every day .....

I want to start this thread my sending out a huge thank you to all the staff and volunteers from all the organisations at Duxford who
have made this year's Flying Legends a superb show case for the warbird industry.

Guys and Gals ~ you gave us a fantastic airshow this weekend !

I can only really give you a flavor for what over 3 hours of warbird heaven looks like ~ here goes .....

Spitfire and Hurricane start to warm things up



And then the Spitfire tail chase really gets things going









Let's not forget the Buchons





A trio of Skyraiders



And then the Mustangs .....





B-17 ~ Sally B joins the fun





Let's not forget the Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight



C-47's strut their stuff



And so we come to the "Balbo" that end's the show .....

This is the first pass as the Red Bull P-38 and Corsair peel away from the back of the formation



As the formation comes back in for the second pass ~ you can see the P-51 and Skyraider in the 3rd element



The Skyraider seems to be trailing something ( smoke or vapour )



And that's all the pix I took. The Balbo is not easy to photograph and it's nice to just stand there and drink it in as
the show ends for another year. The accident happened at the other end of the airfield and we were only aware there
was a problem when the crash crews scrambled and went racing down the airfield.

There was a real air of silence amongst the crowd and few people thought about leaving until it was announced that there
had been a mid-air collision. Both pilots were safe and the Skyraider and managed to recover to land at Duxford.

The P-51 remains are in a field less than a mile from my home ~ but the road is closed ~ so I haven't any pix of it.

I'll close this post with a picture from the Mustang section of the show ~ with "BBD" making what was to be her last landing



All in all ~ a fantastic warbird show ~ and hopefully it's only 363 days until the next one !

[TAdan]

bomberflight, thank you so much for lugging that camera out there for two weeks straight!

I've really enjoyed your updates.

Great pictures of the Duxford show. Shame about the mishaps but atleast everyone is O.K.

[mazdaP5]

I've looked forward to your updates every day, thanks for sharing the photos!

[Django]

Great pics as usual Peter.

Can you hike to the crash to see it if it's that close?

[Nathan]

Nice to see Curtiss products finally being appreciated! And something other then AVG markings!

[Lynn Allen]

Thank you Peter for your time and photo's... All well done.....

Lynn

[Pat Carry]

Very nice set of photos. Is it just me or does the first photo look like art work?

[Pogo]

bomberflight, thank you so much for lugging that camera out there for two weeks straight!
I've really enjoyed your updates.
Great pictures of the Duxford show. Shame about the mishaps but atleast everyone is O.K.

I've looked forward to your updates every day, thanks for sharing the photos!

Thanks for hanging in there bomberflight for these past weeks, your pictures make us feel like we're almost there! What a memorable show, and so glad it did not end tragically. Well done and thank you!

AMEN! Peter, we owe you!

[Chappie]

Man I would love to someday go to Duxford. The sound of the Balbo must be incredible!


Chappie

[PreservedAC]

Man I would love to someday go to Duxford. The sound of the Balbo must be incredible!


Chappie

I have a video of the big balbo formation in my photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvdac/5921 ... hotostream
not the best quality ,but at least it is an nice impression.

This set contains a few pictures and video's of the Flying Legends Airshow on Saturday.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvdac/sets ... 161233714/


More pictures will be added later.

Check-in again later this week.

Regards
Johan