Shuttleworth 3rd Drive in Airshow Sept 6

[John R]

There was a very interesting line-up with a few a/c I had not seen, or heard of, before.

A variable day weatherwise. It started sunny then became overcast then cleared, a pattern that was repeated all afternoon. It ended up being sufficiently calm to fly 3 of the Edwardians, alas not the Deperdussin or the Bleriot. Unfortunately there was no evening sunshine to show them at their best.

The Spitfire and Hurricane started being overcast for the flyby as a pair but cleared just in time for the individual displays.

I decided to start with these so you will not have to scroll down through the mundane stuff to get to them.

 

 

 

 

The show started with the Catalina

 

The Comet/Mew Gull display suffered from the poor light and the Comet's individual display, disappointingly, had no topsides

 

An a/c that I never new existed - the Civilian Coupe ( Civilian was the name of the company)

 

The Fauvel AV36 was followed around the sky by its towing a/c. Surreal sight

 

 

The Lunak glider was flown its usual verve. Sorry about the pixellation - it was up high and the small image lost something when hosted

 

 

Desoutter and Moth together

 

There was rather drab looking Gemini

 

Hawk Speed Six

 

The Sopwith Triplane managed to find a patch of bright sunshine

 

The Edwardians - Avro Triplane and Bristol Boxkite

 

Blackburn Monoplane

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HOUSTON]

OH WOW!!!

 

thank you for sharing the photos. 

 

They  are not mundane  but really  STUNNING.

 

[ColinChipmunkfan]

Lovely shot of the Blackburn in flight- in all the times I have been there I have never seen it flying so thank you for posting.

[Alpha Delta 210]

Lovely set in some gorgeous conditions!

[slufdriver]

Lovely!
I went to the de Havilland 100 display on the 27th, unfortunately the weather wasn’t as good so we didn’t get to see the ‘Edwardians’ fly. Your pictures have made up for that. Thank you.

Richard