Duxford bimble No 16 - 29Apr10

By: Pen Pusher - 29th April 2010 at 21:36

I went to Duxford for the advertised training day for the crew of the B-17 ‘Sally-B‘. It duly departed Duxford late morning and after a couple of circuits of the airfield and a low fast flypast, headed for the longer runway at Cambridge Airport.

Unfortunately she returned about an hour later with the propeller of number 2 engine feathered and after a pass over Duxford, made a faultless landing. It’s reported on the Key Forum that it was an instrument malfunction and should soon be repaired.

The morning started with Cliff Spink departing for Biggin Hill in his Mk XVI Spitfire…..

……..and on his return, threw it around the Cambridgeshire sky for a while.

The camouflaged T.28 Fennec then went flying and on its return did a display routine.

The ’Other’ Buchon was out in the fresh air and tied down for an engine run which was duly completed when the owner arrived in his twin engined Cessna CitationJet.

Early afternoon and the Historic Aircraft Collection Nimrod returned to Duxford on the back of a low loader.......

........and sitting with the rest of the collection in Hangar 3.

A rather nice looking Tiger Moth with an identity crisis arrived. Duly marked up on the fuselage and wings as G-AORX, but on the fin were the slightly smaller markings of D-EORX, the crew were German, and under the under the tail plane in even smaller lettering was N802H.

The Fighter Collection Hangar have the builders in. A massive array of scaffolding was in the process of being erected at the hangar doors on the west side……

……and consequently some of the TFC fleet are resident in the north side of Hangar 2.

‘Miss Velma’ was receiving a bit of blinging.

In the ARCo side of 2 Hangar North, the Beechcraft 18/G-BKGL is receiving some attention.

Brian