Cool. Couple of interesting and new to me additions to the Midlands Air Festival.
Mig 17 flying in from Poland and the French Firefighter will be giving a demo of its work in action!
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Hopefully first flying day of the year at the weekend, weather permitting.
Was checking out a few of last years pics.
This is MH434 at Little Gransden last summer.
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Absolutely stunning pics @Jamiewednesday those WW2 warbirds never fail to give me goosebumps and leave me feeling quite emotional at how their pilots defended our island so courageously.
On a different note I was pleased to get the chance to fly this recently. I’m a big fan of retro-liveried airliners and was itching to get my hands on Papa Juliet for years, partly because my Father joined BEA when this livery was current in 1964.
JonathanG
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That is a fantastic image!
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Geez those pilots have big you know whats. Incredible.
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Was this taken with the new lens.
Yep. As hoped it was ever so slightly better at acquiring and then holding focus at a distance. Defo. a lighter and shorter package (lighter lens, no adapter).
I’ve not had chance to properly review yet but IQ possibly improved. Though not sure about holding focus/IS performs as consistently while panning, however that just could be me being out of practice and/or that it was quite gloomy and bloody cold for most of yesterday! I think it was me…
It was pretty dark when the Hurricane, painted black all over, flew past. But then passed through a single patch of light as the sun started to struggle its way through the cloud.
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I love the BEA and BOAC re-liveries. I remember when they first appeared and I was driving along the M25 just by Heathrow when the BOAC liveried 747-400 flew over - I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My first flight on a Jumbo Jet was as a young boy on a BOAC 747 from JFK to Heathrow so it really brought back memories. This was the Summer of '74 so already some of the fleet were in various states of livery change to BA, but the BOAC livery looked so elegant.
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Yes I love the retro liveries. A large part of my childhood was spent in central London and I remember being able to see the old BOAC passenger terminal building tower from my bedroom window. It was between Victoria rail and bus stations and I guess that they used to bus people out to the airport. Here’s a photo from the web.
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Yes, I remember driving out of West London along the Cromwell road you would see the buses heading for the airport with the luggage trailers on the back.
Photo by Clive A Brown
I wasn’t a great fan of the change from the BEA and BOAC liveries to the BA Negus livery. The BOAC livery in particular looked so elegant on the VC10, but the BA livery just didn’t suit that aircraft at all - I flew on one of the last BA VC10s out of Nassau just before it was retired (and BA went on yet another strike) and it looked so down at heel. Another aircraft that looked great in BOAC colours was the Concorde, albeit only as a Corgi model that I was given (and still have, albeit missing some undercarriage and the plastic droop snoot).
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, mine is a little more ‘static’ 
And finally…
The Kennet Aviation Harvard which is based across the field at Old Warden but is not part of their collection.
And a replica of the DH.71 Tiger Moth, completed last year and flying on only its third event I believe. Yep a MonoMoth!
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That looks a lot like the Schneider Trophy Supermarine planes. I wonder if RJ Mitchell got his clues from that ……
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