WE know exactly what you mean Tim as we are about 5 miles from Duxford , where both "The old Flying Machine Co" , and " Warbirds " are housedtimlewin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:40 am if you go to the film & video link and open the film RED SHORE it has a lot about the Victory Day events we organise for the old chaps, and some of the visits to the museum ship, icebreaker, Krassin in St. Petersburg. You will also see briefly the Spitfire operated by Historic Aircraft Collection I hired for 2 days to fly over Loch Ewe. I had planned for the Hurricane but this was in maintenance (Hurricanes being more significant in the Russian context). The Spit was flown by Charlie Brown, the guns have been removed, no longer entirely necessary, and replaced by larger fuel tanks so its possible to fly from here to there in only one leg. He spent the night at Oban and did his displays over the loch from there. Stirring stuff, you cannot beat the sound of that engine. During the summer I get fairly frequent over-flights by Spitfires doing displays along the South Coast, there is no mistaking them, the other old aircraft we get is the Harvard, a much deeper and heavier note that the numerous light aircraft we get, no mistaking these old stagers. In nearby flying range we have Headcorn, Lydd, Shoreham and others.
and maintained which house many Merlins in differing airframes , and as you say you can pick them out along way off
, and like last weekend they hold in stacking formation close by and overfly our happy band of OAP's , and the other side is Marshalls Airport where some will land and top up in the unlikely event that the bowser is non- op at Duxford .
