After a (far too) long gap on posting I'm finally getting around to catching up on the photo blog!
For my birthday I was lucky enough to get a new compact camera - a Sony DSC-RX100 – so we took it along for our New Year's day walk to try it out. It has a panorama mode so I gave that a go as well (you'll need to click on the panoramas to see them in full).
As a birthday treat we took a trip to the Imperial War Museum Duxford near Cambridge. It was a very wet and windy day but that didn’t really matter as most of the things to see are indoors. We managed to get round most of the exhibition halls except for the American Air Museum and Air and Sea – I’ll make sure I see them next time.
Here’s some of Hun Yieng’s photos and then some of mine. I’ll leave you to decide why hers are all of the family whereas mine are of the aircraft and the displays!
A couple of views of the Air Space hall:
Lancaster bomber (foreground), Concorde (behind) and Mosquito (top left)
Lancaster bomber (foreground), Vulcan bomber (centre) and TSR-2 (middle left)
Pre-World War Two:
RE-8
Tiger Moth
World War 2:
Avro Anson
Westland Lysander
Junkers JU52
Hawker Hurricane
V1 Flying bomb
1940 Fighter Operations Room
Post World War 2 to today:
Shackleton
TSR-2
Lightning
Lightning
Hunter
Hunter
Meteor
Phantom
Phantom
Harrier
Typhoon
I attended a photography workshop day at Stow Maries World War 1 Aerodrome run by Andy Rouse Photography. Before Andy went full time with his photography we used to work together so it was good to catch up with him.
It was a beautiful, sunny, dry day but unfortunately rather windy which limited the World War 1 vintage aircraft from flying. Still, there were plenty of aircraft to photograph including some radio controlled scale model aeroplanes.
Also present were a BBC film crew who were making a programme on the aerodrome and they were filming a re-enactment group.
Sopwith Pup
Fokker Triplane
De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II
1947 Stampe-Vertongen SV-4C
Auster-Alpha 5 and Auster 3
Morane-Saulnier MS.733
To make up for the fact that most of the World War 1 planes/biplanes weren’t able to fly due to the high winds, we were treated to a number of aerobatic displays by Julian Murfitt in his CAP 232.
Here’s some shots of the radio-controlled aircraft that put on a display for us:
