Battle of Britain Fly in -- North Weald
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| Don Fraser took a real world flight into North Weald just before the event (21/10/07) |
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| My steed for the day |
Final, runway 02 |
Getting closer... |
Now you can really see the numbers! |
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| "The Squadron" hut |
Close up of aerodrome chart on the club wall |
Sorry, no Lancaster, but lots of others! |
Classic aircraft to be seen |
| Pictures submitted by Pete Chapman |
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| The two Tiger Moths wait for "the off" at Southernd |
Keeping station with the other Tiger, who in turn keeps station with the (invisible) Oxford |
Hurricane, Spitfire and one of the Tigers, back at the Biggin clubhouse |
Peter D squeezes the Lancaster through, while Don in the Oxford waits to survey the damage |
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Mind the grass! Peter D taxies in with the Lancaster |
The team line up for a photo shoot at Biggin Hill |
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| Pictures submitted by Tim Arnot |
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| Tim wishes the team good luck as Peter D taxies the Lancaster out at Manston |
The team arrives en masse at North Weald |
A Heinkel HE111 sneaks in to watch at the last minute! |
Spitfire, Hurricane and Moth coming in for a flypast |
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| Spitfire and Tiger Moth |
Tiger Moth -- "Smoke On!" |
Heinkel landing, with Spit in the background |
Tiger Moth |
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| Spit and Tiger make another pass... |
... as the Heinkel taxies in |
Not everything worked in the VUK file -- The Oxford comes out as a DC3! |
Lancaster and Spitfire coming in for a low pass |
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| (starts humming the 'Dambusters' march...) |
Flypast complete |
Tony's Spitfire, in a rare upright shot! |
Spitfire makes a flypast |
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How it's the Hurricane's turn |
Hurricane
passes overhead |
Goshawk makes
a touch and go |
Goshawk display |
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| Goshawk synchro pair |
Goshawk comes in to land |
...and parks up |
There are still a few team members on the ground when I arrive at Biggin |
| Pictures submitted by Peter Dodds |
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| Little & Large at Manston |
Red Formation gets ready |
Red Formation route |
Arriving at Biggin |
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Don's Oxford lands at Biggin... |
...Followed by Pete C's Tiger |
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| Page updated 01/02/08 |