Duxford-Update Newspage

Flying Legends 2008

13th July 2008 Page 1

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Another classic Legends air show! The weather wasn't quite as sunny as I would have liked, but for summer 2008 in the U.K., it was a good day!

Fortunately my wife was happy to remain on pup duty for the day, so as usual, it was an early start, arriving at 7am. gates opened a bit earlier than scheduled, so I was soon parked up and ready to explore the site. The three B-17s were parked together on the East apron and aircraft were being moved from Hangar 2 on to the field. After watching TFC dealing with some tech issues on two of the Mustangs, a brief bacon roll then it was flight line time. The early morning sunshine was soon obscured by cloud, so not too many flightline pics this year. I concentrated mainly on the exhibits where something interesting was underway. Then checked out the trade stalls and headed back to the car for lunch.

I found my chair on the flightline had been surrounded by a group of French enthusiasts, but they had left me plenty of room so no problems. TFC carried out a test flight on their Gladiator soon after I had sat down, great to see that complex machine in the air after its virtually complete re-build. Then shortly before 2pm, the flying display began with the Spitfires.

Rather a lot of pics below, so I have divided them into 2 pages, with links to let you navigate your way around. The pics sequence is roughly in line with the running order......