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Duxford Photos
A selection of photos of todays festivities are now online at:
This location Currently, there are no titles on the photos, but if you would like to PM me with any details, I'll soon correct that! Nice to see everybody today. :D |
And some more here.
I didn't manage to get everybody's name either (confusing when everyone has two!) so PM me with updates. A great day out and nice to put real faces to the PPRuNe titles. |
Assorted PPRuNers - I think...
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...e/0504vulc.jpg A_Pommie's lovely looking Auster: http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...0504auster.jpg Just part of the PPRuNe static display with Kingy on finals: http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...0504lineup.jpg Shaggy Sheep Driver arriving in the background while Kingy's Cub looks right at home next to Sally B: http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...ne/0504cub.jpg Closest I got to finding SSD and drooling over his Chipmunk (two disadvantages of the Duxford venue - a) can't get near the aircraft b) so big you have zero chance of tracking anyone down if you lose sight of them). http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...ne/0504ssd.jpg No apologies for a gratuitous Spitfire shot: http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...e/0504spit.jpg Good to put a few names/handles to faces though I'm crap with names so probably forgot them all right away afterwards :O Who was handing out the badges? Never got your name - many thanks anyway! |
Hi Fly Stimulator,
The picture in the top left hand corner has a few unknown names: The guy in the white "BMI Baby" T-Shift towards the left of the photo is a friend of mine from Cardiff, Jason. He sometimes goes under then name "Kestral" on the chat room on PPRUNE. Unfortunately I have to admit the person in the bluey jeans and beige t-shirt scratching his chin is me, real name Richard. I hate to admit it as its the first time in ages I've seen a profile of myself... I am absolutely disgusted with the figure so I'm not flying tomorrow... off out on my cycle and probably go swimming as well. I didn't realise how big I looked! :mad: Other than that an absolutely delightful airfield an a wonderful day out. No matter how many times I have been to Duxford, I have always been taken back by the sheer size of the B52 in the American hangar. Best wishes, Charlie Zulu. |
Well, I'm getting to the point where I know 90% of the people there... so if you need any names putting to faces, send me the pics.
Great to see everyone again, and to meet those of you I hadn't met before. There are still some I haven't met who were there... FNG for one. Why didn't you stay longer?? ;) Thanks to Kingy for the ride. Erm, you know our little secret about our trip back? I had similar problems again on the drive. That's when I stopped trying to use my heels to slow my car down. :O Someone has to sponsor this guy for an instructor's rating!! Hopefully got some cracking photos of Kingy's L4 cub - will scan them in when the film returns... BTW - aeroplane-shaped chicken pieces in the canteen? Nice. Editted to say that I felt like the Pied Piper on more than one occasion, when I turned round to find around 50 people following me.. :eek: |
Fly Stimulator
Second row down, middle photo the lady on the left walking into shot is Flower First row, middle photo the gentlemen on the left is HelenD's husband. Second row, first photo the ugly b**ger in the red t-shirt is me :O Cheers Barney |
Fly Stimulator:
Top left (L to R) - Kingy ? ? HelenD Me Mr HelenD Pilotwolf FFF Evo The one beneath - ? SaabDastard HelenD Sennadog FFF Eveepee BarneyGumble MikeSamuel And Barney... the ugly bu66er in the red t-shirt is me. :p |
Some from me at This page
Apologies for the poor naming and references to "Duty Microlight Pilot", for the life of me I can only remember your real name. If anybody's got any corrections, drop me an Email and I'll correct the labels. G |
Duty Microlight Pilot - Fly Stimulator
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Aha, of course. Thanks, I'll change the labels for that one.
G |
Strange... cos you got his name right in another photo... :confused:
And that is a very nice jacket you have! :) |
I know it is, but it didn't fit you - you'll just have to get your own (or, I suppose, go for co-habitation in one jacket with a suitable volunteer with a slightly outside male jacket).
I changed them both when you weren't looking, but after you told me. G |
Great day out chaps, and some great pictures. It was lovely to put some more faces to names too.
DamienB - next fly-in you and your good lady are most welcome to a ride in the Cub (not at the same time obviously!) Aerbabe - Thanks for being a great 'co-pilot' and a very fast learner - how are the knees? I can hardly move having logged over 5 hrs in the bl**dy thing today and don't forget the high heals for next time .. ooh err ;) Also, AB's quote of the day... (trying to identify big town)... 'it's got a Spire and a big road that's got to be Milton Keynes' - brilliant! :D :D Apologies to anyone on frequency at Duxford during departure. We were having our usual comms fiasco with AB and I playing PTT 'tag'. (You press - I'll talk...), so sorry for the clipped messages and spurious 'now's'! :O Kingy Edited for bad punctuation - gawd I'm soo tired |
Hey, not fair. Wasn't it more like "It's got a spire, a big road, a railway, a block that looks like the ski-slope and some lakes..." ;)
Glad you made it back okay. And thanks for the display at Finmere. :) |
Sorry not to make it this time. As I feared, I ended up back in Paris whilst you lot were having fun. Great photos. You don't look much like I imagined :D You are all so young!
TvR |
AB - of course, you know I'm only joking.. ******* is a dead ringer for MK... and it's all part of the fun :E
I, for one was caught out by our 'supersonic' ground speed of 70kts. :D Did your 'P's see us overhead? K |
AerBabe
You had me worried there.....I am the ugly B**ger in the second row LH photo in the red T-Shirt and you are the ugly B**ger in the second row middle photo. I really don't think I ought to have posted that, but I have pressed the return key now :eek: Barney x P.S. As your T-shirt said "Remove Before Flight" Does that mean you fly top-less????? If so please can I be your co-pilot please :O |
Barney,
That's a negative I'm afraid, but thinking about it, AB was complaining about being cold when sat behind me, perhaps I should have looked 'round !!:D Kingy |
Kingy
You lucky, lucky, lucky, (more luckys to overcome the minimumum character posting rule) chap you!! Barney P.S. But did you get two hugs from Flower like me???? Now who's the lucky one :D |
www.stevelevien.com/dux0504.htm
but of aeroplanes rather than people, sorry! -------------------- vintage ATCO www.stevelevien.com |
As others have said, it was a good day out yesterday. I flew with FNG
in his Cap 10B, which previously, I'd flown a 30 mins aero session in. On the ground at Rochester we briefed on the route, and agreed that we'd climb into Rochester's overhead, where I would take control, and fly us up to Duxford. We routed around the east of Stansted's airspace, and had talked of the possibility of doing some aeros over the disused airfield Wratting Common. FNG would navigate, I'd fly. The Cap 10 is a real delight to fly. At first, I couldn't get used to the sensitivity of the trimmer, but after a few minutes I'd got it trimmed in straight and level. When we reached Wratting Common, we decided that there were too many loose articles to hold safely on my lap while we aerobated, so we'd proceed straight to Duxford, where later we'd deposit a load of stuff and go for a local aeros sortie. On the ground at Duxford we met up with some PPRuNers, had some lunch and then left some gear in the tower. We then briefed on the aerobatic sortie. We would fly loops, aileron rolls and barrel rolls. We left Duxford's zone straight off 06, and climbed up to 5000'. FNG first demonstrated the manoeuvres, and then I tried some aileron rolls. The first couple were pretty terrible, as I wasn't getting the required angle of pitch-up before applying aileron. After a couple I began to get the hang of them, and they weren't that bad. After 20 minutes or so of aeros, we headed back to Duxford. The flight back was as fun as the outbound flight, and as you'd expect of a day like yesterday, Rochester's circuit was jam packed - there were six other aircraft operating in the circuit with us. A really super day out, and many thanks to FNG for coming to Rochester, and taking me with him. Thanks also to Stampe for the lift to Rochester train station :D tKF |
Aah Barney - but I got two hugs and a kiss from Flower. Beat that! :p
And no, I don't fly topless. :rolleyes: Often. |
and why not? :D :D :D
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Because I haven't got enough money...
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I am sorry that I didn't meet Aerbabe and others but it was good to see FFF, Genghis and to meet LownSlow at last as well as others. TKF and I arrived a bit late and then went off flying, so we weren't on the ground for very long. I had promised to go aerobatting with a friend back at Waltham. We met Stampe back at Rochester.
I enjoyed the day, with three airfields, six landings (three crosswind), one go around (crosswind and gashness induced at Rochester), a circumnavigation (widdershins) of London, two aeros sessions and 4 hours 10 minutes logged. The Rapide, Spitfire and Mustang were the sort of bonuses which a visit to Duxford often brings (but shame on those blokes from Oxford who started up their Lycoming Mark 1 Bagofspanners just as the Spitfire ran in). TKF was excellent company and a smooth flyer. Ed: just pull up a bit more positively and check the pitch more definitely for the aileron roll. I forgot to suggest that you try shouting out "Pull! Check! and ROLL!" as you do it) Duxford is a great place (I did my QXC from there) but so big that it's difficult to remain as a group. My vote for another one is Kemble. I'll go off to Whirly's thread and suggest that. |
There's a fly-in coming up at Kemble - Great Vintage Flying Weekend or somesuch that we hijack. The red chippy and crew are booked for it, so Keef - get that weather ordered please (I know, I know, sales not management. But you must have *some* influence ;~)
SSD |
Shaggy, we just missed you, but exchanged waves as we taxied past the Chipmunk.
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SSD the VFWE at Kemble is a great weekend but its booked in advance and normally heavily oversubscribed so not "hijackable".I did it last year flying Hairyplanes Miles Falcon and am penclilled in this year flying either the Falcon or Magister whichever the great man allots me (rather depends on the wx. as I,m a bit of a girlie when it comes to open cockpit x-country flying in cold weather).Be nice to meet some of you there a great event but not many modern aircraft make it there ,great for your chippy but they don,t take many modern aircraft due shortage of capacity.
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A great day out and a great opportunity to put more names to Pprune names. Also a great chance to see just how long it takes a fully loaded Auster to get off the ground with "slightly" soft tyres :D
Thanks to Vintage ATCO for calling my Auster (the one with the unfeasably large registration letters) "splendid". We will eventually meet up if only by accident! Do crossedcontrols and I get the award for the shortest flight to Duxford? Did anybody else take less than 25 minutes to get there? That includes 5 minutes of positioning for the downwind join by the way cos there were no overhead joins were there people........... SSD, nice to see the Chippy there. You can come and talk to us, we're not all completely mad, honest :D :D Nice pics from you clever bods who can post these things, glad my double chin didn't feature in any of them :p :p See y'all at the next one weather and leave schedule permitting..... |
L&S,
Nice to meet you mate and CC too. I have only two words to say to you..Cosmic Wind.. cor! - they are probably still mopping up our saliva!! Oh and there were no overhead joins at all - none, zilch, nada, zero, not one - okay? :E Kingy |
Do crossedcontrols and I get the award for the shortest flight to Duxford? Did anybody else take less than 25 minutes to get there? |
Ok folks i'm a tactile person, anyone else want to claim any hugs and kisses off me;)
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Damn, didn't realise there was a flower-hugging competition, otherwise I might have counted my hugs. :rolleyes:
Can't think of much to add! It was fantastic day, saw a load of people I hadn't seen for a while, met a load of new faces, still can't believe that we actually got that many people to all meet up so successfully. I have a load of photos, mostly of museum aeroplanes but a few of PPRuNers and their aeroplanes. I also have a selection of photos of AerBabe doing impressions of various aircraft - unless anyone else has already posted similar (I should have time to have a proper look later today) I'll post them, and see who can guess what they are! FFF -------------- |
The longest flight to Duxford
But first - excellent piccies (again) DamienB.
L&S - I'll talk to anyone. Didn't know who you were or would definatly have had a chat ;~) The Red Chippy is loveley, but not the fastest aerial conveyance (90 knot cruise). So our flights were 1:50 down, 2:00 back. Any advance??? SSD |
SSD,
I win, I win ! Eastbach - Finmere (to pick up AB but bang on track) - Duxford 2hrs25m - headwind gave 45kt groundspeed Duxford - Finmere ...its a long story.. :O 1hr55 (!) - Eastbach - 45m Making a total flight time of 5hrs5mins total - anyone beat that? Kingy |
A Grand Day Out
What a gorgeous day!
Many thanks to rustle and Mike for the pick-up in FF, it's a very speedy, comfortable and well kept aeroplane...I'm sure you love showing it off! I don't think I've ever seen such big numbers on my GPS! Max reading was 168kt by the way! Had a great time there sitting in the sun and trying out my mini camera, which actually performed very well! I will post the pics within a day or two! The trip back, although into horrible hazy sun, was really good fun. Everyone commented how nicely painted that Warrior was knobby! Hope I was of some assistance as your first semi qualified passenger!!! Unfortunately I think I didn't get to meet half of you, but Duxford is huge and I think I got to see about half of the PPRuNers and half of the hangars and exhibits so it worked out great! To the chap with the C421 - (I'm afraid I forget your name) if you ever stumble across Coventry on your travels I'd love to have a closer look at that beauty - although I can't cover landings - the C310 was over £40!!! Best regards, Mike :cool: |
To the chap with the C421 - (I'm afraid I forget your name) if you ever stumble across Coventry on your travels I'd love to have a closer look at that beauty - although I can't cover landings - the C310 was over £40!!! Also, now I've been to a PPrune fly-in (my first) I will try and get to another, providing we go somewhere with around 850-1000m of tarmac, depending on passenger numbers :D |
Great day out. It was good to meet a whole lot of new faces. Not an epic trip, but a nice day's flying.
We pottered back to NW, and sat there watching the JPs, Gnat and various Yaks go by. Gave Kolibear & Co a wave when they got back a bit later. Looking forward to the next one RD |
How about a special offer Flower three hugs for the price of two.....I got two hugs so am I owed a third??? Although on another thread you were saying you were going to punch someone on the nose, so I decided I had better not mess with Flower:O
Barney x P.S. I heard that EGFF stands for Early Go For Flower ....but I am sure it is just a vicious rumour ;) |
Barney ,
Special Hugs coming your way, are you sure I only gave you two . Oh well better save them up for you for next time. ;) As for early goes they don't exist just a figment of your imagination :p |
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