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

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


1910 Deperdussin


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.

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

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

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 ! ! !

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.

Great photos Doug, thanks for the Tomtit, that is going in the aircraft folder. Hard to imagine my hero once flew that very plane
Looks like you had exceptional weather as well, you really are having the most amazing aviation summer!

Mark

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

.... 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  ;)

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.

really impressive photos Doug!!!