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Author Topic: Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford  (Read 1546 times)

Offline BigLee

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Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford
« on: September 10, 2010, 09:38:37 AM »
Last weekend I was fortunate to be able to attend the Imperial War Museum Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show. I got a little trigger happy and shot over 600 pictures in the course of the day. Fortunately I have been able to whittle this down to a reasonable number and have now posted a slideshow of my photo's on my Blog.  BLMA Link

The IWM put on an excellent event with loads of traders, and Veterans present in addition to access to the regular exhibits and the air show itself. On the Saturday alone there were 24,000 visitors with a further 20,000 on the Sunday. I suspect that the biggest draw was the promised flight of no less than 16 Spitfires. This was a truly incredible sight and sent shivers down my spine.

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Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 09:20:07 PM »
Wow, now that's a load of pictures! It's great to see these old planes still working. Thx for sharing.
Roky Erickson flies my spaceship!

Offline Bugsda

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Re: Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 02:06:12 AM »
Excellent! Wish I'd gone   8) I've never seen that many Spits up in one go :o
Well I've lead an evil life, so they say, but I'll outrun the Devil on judgement day.

Offline Sir Dryden

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Re: Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 03:05:08 PM »
I am SOOOOO jealous, you got to see sixteen, SIXTEEN! Spits flying formation...Man, I get goosebumps just imagining what it must have sounded like (you read that right, these Merlins purr like nothing else).

Yours truly,

a very envious Sir Dryden

Offline arktos

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Re: Battle of Britain Air Show - IWM Duxford
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2010, 03:59:34 PM »
Lucky Englishmen ... i ''envy'' you !  :o

 

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