Duxford 2011 Pix
 

Not a lot Ladies and Gents and they were all done on my phone so not the greatest but thought id share never the less

The Old lady:

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P-38:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/42d1ae5a.jpg
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The 'Jug'

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P-51's

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/db69067c.jpg

A couple dressing for the occasion :)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/15e90ae0.jpg

Spit 1 & 190-E

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Spit 1:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/5534c495.jpg

Spit 5 with Hispanos:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/29523d85.jpg

Various 109's & Spits:

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Spit reconnaissance, you can make the massive camera near the side marking:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/bc015bbd.jpg

~S~

That ain't no 109, that's the result of evil surgery of centipedish dimensions.

Luckily you have this beauty to counter that

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...3/37245b8e.jpg

Seriously fast too..

nice pics :) to bad thye cant take one of those Spanish 109's and put a real DB605 in it...love to be there when they fired that up :):)

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Yeah but the 'Red Bull' logo just ruins it :wink:

Lovely shots, thanks for sharing Jamz!

beautiful things

THINGS!!!!...they are marvels of engineering (for there time) that were used for a terrible situation.

S!

Thanks for sharing mate, great camera on your phone. Out of curiosity, is that Spit Mk1 static or a flyer? I've not seen that there before.

Red Bull on a P38 is bloody sacrilege :mad:

I see no 109s. :rolleyes:

To keep the birds flying I think the Red Bull logo is needed? Better a beautiful P38 with the logo then no P38 at all right?:grin:

And I see the whale-109 has also joined the party :-P Good quality pictures as well for a cell phone, but I guess my own is just 'old':grin:

Great pics and great planes
Thanks for sharing...:grin:

Breaking News! P-51 lost at Duxford
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oJngucEac4

P-51 "Big Beautiful Doll" had a mid-air collision with a skyraider. The skyraider consequently lost a small portion of the wing and the pilot managed to land it safely. Unfortunately, the P-51 pilot had to bail out at 500 ft and "Big Beautiful Doll" was lost. :( :( :(

Personally, I think the pilot could still land the P-51 given that no damage was incurred on any of the control surfaces, (idk for sure, maybe I'm wrong?) he might bailed out because the plane was hit so hard that it became out of control? maybe it was going into a spin?

What do u guys think?

Looked like it was out of control, may have had damaged elevators, not sure how it would be crash landing a P51 with that big air intake, but it looked like the pilot had time to make the right decision, fortunately the crashed '51 didnt burn, looks like the will be able to rebuild it eventually.

oh u think they can rebuild it? that's good news. i hope it would happen. but I also think they probably wouldn't bother with wreckage like that cus the cost would probably be too high.

from the zoomed in camera view it really looks like the wing hit the fuselage right before the elevators. and control was regained after it swung left to right drastically.

If it happened in CloD, i would land that P-51. :)

It's hardly breaking news. I was there. In a video on local news, Rob Davies the pilot confirmed the elevator controls were dead (not surprised, since the control cables run through the section of tail that was struck).

Real shame, Doll was a beauty.

And he actually bailed at more like 200-250ft, an incredibly low bail.

cool man, thanks for the info. i wrote breaking news because considering the number of remaining flyable p-51, it is a considerable loss.

It's definitely a considerable loss - heartbreaking. The plane had just been sold recently too - Rob Davis sold it to Meier Motors (i think) in Germany. They were letting him fly it for the last time at Duxford Legends - which only adds more sorrow to the whole saga.

p.s. you should look into meier motors, they have some beautiful warbirds and a good website. This is also one of theirs:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/...be8991dc_b.jpg

One can also see at 0:46 how deform the tail was after the impact. No wonder he jumped. That said, I hate when warbirds crash (the 4'th within 2 months)...
:(

maybe its about time that they all "retire" lol

Np mate :)

Im pretty sure that Mk1 was a flyer..though im not 100% sorry

Lol funny enough its the latest Iphone that I have and the camera res is quite low tbh and only look ok if your viewing them on the actual phone because the screen is so good but these dont look so bad considering

.... well this has to be the best war 'bird' at the show ;)


PPP

That Spitfire mk I did indeed fly! Magnificent. There's another Spitfire about to become airworthy, and will have the classic BoB paint scheme - half black, half white belly. Can't wait.

Think it's a Fighter Collection spit.