Great Vintage Flying Weekend. I've been waiting a long time for this event as it has been a washout for the last two years running. You've all seen Mic's & Tom's photos of the Saturday when it was a tad wet & windy for vintage light aircraft. Conditions were absolutely perfect on the Sunday. Shame about the position of the sun which was just in the wrong place for decent shots of them landing. I took a lot of photos but it wasn't the best day I've had with the camera & to be honest I thought twice about posting any at all. Still, I can't complain about that. It was a very pleasant day out & I saw a lot of interesting & rare aeroplanes, some of which I don't remember ever seeing before.

That's enough excuses, here's the photos. Some of these are not what you might think.

                                   

More to come.

Nice!!
How about that sweet Travel Air.... !   

Thanks for the comments. Not the best photos I've ever taken but I thought they were worth posting as you don't get the chance to see these rarer types every day. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ones that aren't quite what they appear to be, like the two yellow biplanes. They certainly fooled me.

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Must confess I had to look it up. I think this is the first time I've seen one.

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Thanks Mic. Great minds obviously think alike. Shame about the wind on Saturday but you saw some that I didn't. If conditions had been like Sunday on both days it would have been a really great vintage flying weekend. Hope you enjoyed it anyway.

PS. Did you miss the Lanc?

Björn wrote on May 23^rd, 2007 at 10:01am:

They look very similar but it's actually a Ryan Navion Super 260.

Hagar wrote on May 23^rd, 2007 at 9:37am:


The lanc rather annoyingly didnt turn up....Unless we missed it which i doubt. It was scheduled for 3:25, we got there at 10 in the morning and left at 4:10 with no lanc....most of the vintage stuff had left by 4 though so I got loads of taxying shots that I didnt post (but could )

.mic

Hagar wrote on May 23^rd, 2007 at 11:33am:


Exactly...waiting for Biggin Hill...Lanc AND 5 Spitfires

.mic

Omag 2.0 wrote on May 23^rd, 2007 at 2:38pm:

Finally someone noticed.

No, it's not related to the Stearman. It fooled me as well. I have to admit I've never heard of it before.

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I wondered if it was. I've seen this one at Goodwood & Popham. Shame a few couldn't have made it over here.

PS. What about the other two mystery planes?

Omag 2.0 wrote on May 23^rd, 2007 at 3:00pm:

Naturellement M'sieu. It's a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3. http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/naf/n3n-3.htm

PS. It's written on the rudder.