For my trans-atlantic friends;
The grand Ol' Lady Sally B with two of her little friends. Sadly enough one of them was a little later the same day shamelessly a**whipped and failed to return...

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...ord2011317.jpg

A blazing weekend
 

Visting Duxford this weekend was a blast :eek:

To sum it all up:

Friday
1. Two Spitfires mk Xi piloted by McQ59 and Kav takes of from their Norwegian bases, makes a safe landing at Cambridge, debriefs at The Eagle pub.

2. A B17 and a PO2 piloted by Gilly and Jack takes from theire northern british bases, overshoots Cambridge, misses debriefing at The Eagle and makes a hard landing at Davedogs towers in Essex. Pilots ok but severly confused.

Saturday
1. Gilly and Jack gets assisted by Davedog in his Spitfire mmk 14 at his base, manages take of for Duxford where they make a safe landing :-P

2. A Spitfire hits a bump at take off, angles towards the crowd but regains control :eek:

3. A Skyraider gets it wrong and is called of formation..

Sunday
1. Gillywing takes off from their new base, Davedogs tower, Has set their compass wrong and ends up at Hendon :rolleyes:, therefore misses out on the sunday action at Duxford.

2. Fokker noses over at landing.

3. A Sea Fury tries to land to early and gets called off.

4. The Bearcat overshoots landing.

5. P 51 and Skyraider crashes :shock:

6. A blunt and ignorant KAV assults a pilot after the crash and interrogates him about it. The pilot turns out be Stephen Grey.

7. Gillywing takes of from Hendon, yet there is still a compass error and they misses out on the debrief at The Eagle pub once again :cool:

Monday
1. The Norwegian Spitfires heads back north/east after having great fun, gotten loads of books (thanks alot Jack) and a Hartmann leather jacket.
Many thanks to you all guys. Great seeing you all again :-P

Great pic McQ.....thanks for sharing.

Thanks Dale. Still sorting, but think it may be a cpl of the nooky around...

Edit: One of the norwegian crew crashes at a nearby airfield and spends the night at a nearby B&B they call Hilton. The guys lurking in the Ryanair-tower wasn't up to it this time, so I dodged the sceduled flight...( I will strafe'em on occation, but they are good at hiding!) Returned to base 15 hours late.

If you haven't any good ones of her, I certainly have - I can let people (on the forums :p not strangers) have the large versions of the originals if anyone wants them. :)

Comment from my son: 'Maybe he forgot the combatflaps!?'

KAV...want...to...see...that...jacket!

;)

MAC

Think it's a bit too early to say with certainty that BBD went uncontrollable after the collision which made the pilot jump. Being strongly hit and not knowing the extent of the damage the pilot may have not wanted to wait to find out - he was so low he used his only chance to get out while he could. Even if the controls were still intact he could not be blamed - many pilots died trying to salvage damaged planes which went then uncontrollable during landings.

It's going to be interesting to read the Accident report when it comes out.

MAC

Just found this interview with the pilot, Rob Davies.

MAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLQsJ...mbedded#at=118