While Grant didn’t get a chance to record with Melanie Salisbury fromAviation Tours NZ, she did pass on some information about their “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” tour of the UK in July 2015 which includes Duxford’s “Flying Legends” airshow. It looks like a great tour with plenty ...
view of hundreds of families, killing its pilot and passenger.Thousands of spectators watched in horror as the 50 year-old Fairey Firefly crashed in front of them during the Flying Legends show at Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire.One moment the plane was flying normally in sunny clear ...
The TU144 did sport a pair of canards behind the cockpit to enable nose up and down control at slower speeds. These folded away into the fuselage when not used. All Concordes were grounded shortly after the crash pending further investigation. Once the cause was known, £17M of safety ...
The P-47was abigplane. It was three feet wider than the P-51 and four feet longer. And at more than 10,000 pounds empty, it was about 50 percent heavier than the Mustang and nearly twice the weight of of theBritish Spitfire. In fact, along with the three-seatGrumman Avenger, the ...
While Grant didn’t get a chance to record with Melanie Salisbury from Aviation Tours NZ, she did pass on some information about their “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” tour of the UK in July 2015 which includes Duxford’s “Flying Legends” airshow. It looks like a great tour with plenty...
(or avoid :). It is with Cricket in mind that our very own Infrequent Flyer, Anthony Simmons, took some time out of his European adventures to visit theImperial War Museumat Duxford (home of theDuxford Aviation Society) at the time of their last flying display for 2011, a day that saw...