Red Arrows 1. (Please enlarge).

Last Sunday I drove to Duxford with a couple of friends. Duxford is an old, small aerodrome and every year they have an air show. I was disappointed when we arrived as the sky was cloudy and the light very flat and if the sun came out, according to the weather forecast, we would be facing directly into it. We decided not to go to the viewing gallery of Duxford and I drove as far as I could, parked the car and we walked along a small country lane opposite the runway for two hours in order to put the sun behind us. On the way we went through several guarded barriers that warned us that once the air show started we could not go back until it finished. We soon realized that the flight director did not want anybody to be under the flight path of any performing aircraft. The reason for this was last year’s accident at the Shoreham air show when a vintage Hawker Hunter crashed onto the A27 killing 11 people. The pilot looped the loop and he entered the loop at 200 feet, he was licensed to do this manoeuvre entering the loop at 500 feet. Three policemen on motorbikes stopped us and they said carry on until the last barrier. That we did and we ended up miles away from the air field and we sat on a grass verge with a very tall grass fence behind us. The sun begun to come out and blue patches of sky appeared. The photos that you see in this session are massive crops as the performing aircraft were too far away.

Thank you for viewing and any comments will be appreciated.