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Specmaster:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 06, 2018, 09:06:27 pm ---When I was living at Sutton Wharf in Rochford we were close enough to Southend airport that we got a great view of the BoB memorial flight whenever they did a show in Kent, as they used to fuel up there. The sound of all those Merlins.... bliss!

I'm well up for seeing a Spit, always am. They have the same appeal to me as the early Tek 'scopes - beautiful industrial design at its absolute best.

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Sutton Wharf is a boat yard, where you living on a house boat?

GerryBags:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 06, 2018, 09:41:37 pm ---Sutton Wharf is a boat yard, where you living on a house boat?

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erm... Not if you work for the council. If you don't, then yes, on a big old rotting Grand Banks 48' woody. Built of finest Honduras mahogany and marine ply which was coming to the end of its life. Someone fitter than I am has taken it over now. It had a great hull treatment, though. It was 'cascovered' from new, which is strips of canvas soaked in Resorcinol resin, the adhesive used in marine ply in the past. Everything below the water-line was in great condition.

Specmaster:
Off Topic, but these are a few of the 1080 photos I took of my day out at the Old Warden 1st air show of the season. For those that don't know, Old Warden is the home the world famous Shuttleworth Collection and they have many old planes there, some from the Edwardian days and one of those is 106 years old still fly's. You can get up close and personal with the planes as they park them along the crowd line and I was in the 2nd row of people back from the crowd line and the planes were parked up literally just 50ft in front of me. When they turn them around and start up ready for their display slot , if you're right behind them at that time, you really have to hang onto everything or else it will get blown away from the propeller wash and many people lost hats.

The following photos are just a quick flavor of what was there, no pics of the typhoon as it was too far away and high, it became a dot on the photo because of new regulations for airshows and high energy aircraft.


















GerryBags:
 :-+

Really great photography, and some gorgeous 'planes to boot. The shot of the two Hurricanes is as good as any airshow photo I've seen.

Brumby:
Now I'm going to have to see if I can find "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"....

My favourite piston engine aircraft are the Spitfire and the Lancaster bomber.  I always find a smile when I see the Spitfire in any movie scene ... even when they have them flying into space attacking an orbiting spaceship, complete with aerial acrobatic manoeuvres (but that's Dr Who for you).

Nice pics.   :-+

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