Abingdon Fayre arrivals
Aircraft have started arriving for the Abingdon Fayre at Dalton Barracks, Abingdon. Here are a few quick piccies of todays events. The Displays by the Chinook and Merlin are really impressive. The Polish Navy have also arrived ready for the weekends fun and games.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...4/chinook1.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...4/chinook2.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...04/merlin1.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...04/merlin2.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...04/merlin3.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/lynx1.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/m28a.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/m28b.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/m28c.jpg |
Nice photos MOFT, is the Polish Navy the first time Abingdon Fayre has had a foreign milatry plane taking part ?
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A few more movements at Sunny (ish) Abingdon.
The Lynx did another practise display http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/lynx2.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/lynx3.jpg Then the sun went in and the cloud came over, so guess what, the fast jets arrived. First the Hawk. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/hawk1.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/hawk2.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...2904/hawk3.jpg Followed by the Jaguar http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/jag1.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/jag2.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/jag3.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/jag4.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.bl...b2904/jag5.jpg (I liked the Jag…….a lot!!) And then the sun came out. Hope you all have a great day there tomorrow. |
MotF.....
Great pics..and very clear too. Keep up the good work. Had a few days in Abingdon in 2000...am an MG buff. Beautiful countryside and great town. BTW the TR/Dist from here to you is..317/8959 nm....( just a little bit of useless info) emeritus :ok: :ok: :ok: |
Andrewman
Yes it was the first year for an overseas military aircraft... OAW |
and a handful of pics from the show itself (including 3 wheeled Chinook) here. If anybody wants one for a desktop or similar, then just PM me for a larger hi res copy.
http://photobucket.com/albums/y192/z...egeek/?start=0 |
Very nice pics from both of you! The vertical Provost is now my desktop!
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