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Sep 5^th, 2004 at 7:00pm

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Fantastic weather & a brilliant show. Easily the best event I've attended this year. Well worth the trip. Cheesy

A rare sight. These are both originals & only allowed to do short hops in perfect conditions.
The 1909 Bleriot XI.

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The little Hawker Tomtit for Ozzy. This is the only surviving example. Once owned (& crashed) by Alex Henshaw.

The beautiful Hawker Hind. This one's for Felix.

I finally got to see the Hawker Sea Hurricane fly.

Old Warden is a little piece of paradise for vintage aircraft freaks like me. (I'm getting the hang of this new-fangled camera at last.) Perfick. Wink

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Reply #1 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 1:08am

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FANTASIC shots!!! WOW what an incredible experience it must have been to see those first two.

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Reply #2 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 1:32am

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Fantastic weather & a brilliant show. Easily the best event I've attended this year. Well worth the trip. Cheesy

Old Warden is a little piece of paradise for vintage aircraft freaks like me. (I'm getting the hang of this new-fangled camera at last.) Perfick. Wink

Wonderful shots there Doug....nice to see the camera start to come into its place in your hand........and your final word is just that .................Perfick ! ! !

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Reply #3 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 1:53am

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Doug, is that the original Bleriot aircraft that make the first fight accross the English Channel in the first photo?

If so, I'm amazed that they would risk flying it.

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Reply #4 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 3:36am

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Great photos Doug, thanks for the Tomtit, that is going in the aircraft folder. Hard to imagine my hero once flew that very plane Shocked

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Looks like you had exceptional weather as well, you really are having the most amazing aviation summer!

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Reply #5 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 6:59am

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.... good shots, they are really good .... are you pleased with them? Wink

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Reply #6 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 1:39pm

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Thanks for the kind words chaps. Glad you like 'em. Wink

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Doug, is that the original Bleriot aircraft that make the first fight accross the English Channel in the first photo?

If so, I'm amazed that they would risk flying it.

No Richie. It's the same type but not the same one. Only the most experienced pilots are allowed to fly it. Andy Sefton the Shuttleworth chief pilot flies most of these "Edwardian flying machines". (I'm not sure where the original is. If it survived it's probably in a French museum.)

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.... good shots, they are really good .... are you pleased with them?

Thanks Kemplen. I'm absolutely delighted - now I'm getting the hang of it. Roll Eyes

I'm really pleased with my Old Warden shots. The brilliant weather didn't hurt. Grin

PS. All these were all taken on medium resolution. I'll double it up when I get more memory.

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Reply #7 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 1:57pm

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What a magical place Old Warden is. These are easily your best shots yet, just fantastic.

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Reply #8 - Sep 7^th, 2004 at 2:25am

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.... as a child, my grandfather was taken to the Dover cliff top were bleriot's plane had crashlanded. He used to tell how it was all smashed up, the fusalage broken in two, and that men rigged it up and lashed it back together for the photo shots, he rekoned that he was in the crowd in one of the famous pictures, he had a copy, it was like a postcard, you couldn,t tell that it was him but the dates did match up, and he did live in Dover .... what a change in flight he witnessed, having been there at that, and then in his later years to get a flight on concorde to bahrane with his brother who was a flight engineer for BA .... amazing stories Wink

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Reply #9 - Sep 7^th, 2004 at 10:27am

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Hawker Hind - at least ONE real airplane is shown in this series...

Thanks, Doug.

There is something beautiful about that series of Hawker inter-war fighters/army co-op/bomber of the Fury/Hind/Demon/Nimrod series. If it were a musical opus, they would be considered variations on a Theme, and all beautiful in their own right.

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Reply #10 - Sep 7^th, 2004 at 10:27am

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really impressive photos Doug!!!

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