Photos from today's airshow at Shoreham… I wasn't at the show, but at friend's house a mile or so away from the airfield and just beneath the turning circle. Great views despite the grey skies and somewhat delayed start due to the weather conditions. Quite amazing that some of these planes are still flying.
Catalina
Hawker Hurricane
Messerschmitt
Mustang
Spitfire
Lots of Spitfires!
Tucano
Strikemaster
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
gdare
22 Aug 2010Airplanes, for a change 😀 :yes: That Messerschmitt looks like a plastic model :eyes:
studio41
22 Aug 2010excellent and fun captures!!
anonymous
22 Aug 2010Kerith writes:
Fantastic!! What we saw was spectacular, just a shame there wasn't more of it.
Thank you so much for coming over.
x
Words
22 Aug 2010Jill, thanks!
Words
22 Aug 2010Darko, those plastic (Airfix) models were great. I built loads of them when I was a kid. This just shows how realistic they were. 😉
Words
22 Aug 2010Kerith, unbelievably it looks like we got the 'good weather' yesterday! Thank you for providing the perfect venue 🙂
SittingFox
23 Aug 2010:up:
The talk of plastic models reminds me of the plastic woodpigeons 😆
Words
23 Aug 2010Adele, you mean this discussion?
SittingFox
23 Aug 2010Indeed!
Flying Red Fox Blog
25 Aug 2010Excellent! :yes:
I went on the Catalina and the pilot said that this was one of only a few airworthy Catalinas around, the other two being in Canada and The USA and for only £3 you were allowed in and i went in to escape the rain lol!
Its very interesting, i will do my report when i come back from my temporary cancelled trip to Mersea island with PHAB, iam well enough to go back tomorrow i think hopefully)
I thought that because it was the only "Cat" flying they wouldnt risk the weather but it did well flying at 300ft cloudbase!
Words
25 Aug 2010I bet it was fun going in the Catalina. Beautiful looking plane. The cloud base was ridiculously low… the planes were disappearing just above our heads. A bit of sunshine would have been welcome but it was still enjoyable.
Hope things go well with the trip to Mersea tomorrow. :up: