Planes

[zotz]

Duxford obviously have something on this weekend. Four planes are up doing various loops and turns in formation. Three of them might be Spitfires, and the other definitely isn't as it has a very different wing outline. They're not coming close enough low enough to have a good look, and I wouldn't necessarily be sure even then.

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[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

They have a combination fly/orchestral day coming up, but I'd doubt they'd be daft enough to run it on the same day as the Strawberry fair

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

The spitfire wing shape is difficult to mistake - even the later ones with truncated tips. If the fourth looks quite boxy it might be an ME109.

(It's all coming back to me now - amazing how much stuff gets stored away)

[zotz]

They did look like it - roughly elliptical, but with a straighter leading edge and a rounder trailing one. No flat tips. The other was boxier, and they certainly used to have a flying Messerschmidt, but I thought they'd retired it. Could be someone else's, of course.

[zotz]

According to this they have a "Spitfire Day" a week on Sunday with three flying Spitfires. Maybe they're practicing a week ahead.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Me for Cambridge on 15th, I thought. However, it appears that the event comes bundled with Fathers' Day crap, which is a tad off-putting.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

They did have two, one crashed the other they have is a semi-prototype from the spanish civil war.
I'm not sure theres actually any real flying 109's left.

[zotz]

They said they were going to rebuild the crashed one - the plan was to retire it airworthy, and the last I heard they still wanted to. But I don't know what happened eventually.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Info on the prom day...

http://www.iwm.org.uk/duxford/press13.htm