Ryan PT-22 at Duxford today (Tues)

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It wasn't just the Hurricane up at Duxford today, the Ryan was doing circuits when I arrived. First time I have seen this one fly.

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Wow - nice to see this fly.

Maybe we'll see it in formation with Shuttleworth's one this summer ?

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Beauty aircraft!!
I addition few photos of even aircraft from museum Breighton.
Evžen

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Who's the pilot? Looks a bit like Pete Kynsey.

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It was a young lady (Rear seat). Her passenger, was "delivered" back to the ARC building.

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Blue Robin,

This may help further.

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The lady in the back is the owner and pilot Tracy Curtiss-Taylor.

I flew the thing with her from Breighton last year and subsequently checked her out on it. She flew it extremely well.

Nice to see her in the air again in her 22.

HP

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wait... u mean her surname is Curtiss-Taylor, she flies great, owns a rare piece of flying machinery and above all is 22 years old? I think we have a winner for the "who's gonna marry Alex?" contest chaps! :D

Alex

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..er, no, she was in her PT22, not in her 22..

DOH!!!

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..anyway flying that thing without goggles is a lil dary, isnt it? I cried my arse out in a Tiger once because I wanted to take some airborne pics and left the goggles in the hangar..

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Scary stuff reading the biography.

Not many of his instructors are still with us.

Moggy