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Duxford Flying ledgends 2007

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Hello


This year I'll visit for the first time the Duxford Flying Ledgends airshow, featuring the world's most famous warbirds. This show is the largest and most famous warbirdshow in Europe and counts numberous of great formation flights and realy beautifull flying 'old ladies'.

I hope it will be a nice display and I also hope the weather-gods will have mercy with us, visitors.

Later on I'll post a report here but for now I have a request to people who are know something about Duxford airshow and/or the field.


1- How are the possibilities to take pictures (concerning lighting etc...)

2- We (me and my friends) are also radio freaks if it comes to ATC etc...so we will bring our 'scanner' with us to the field since in the UK this is not forbidden.

My question is thus quite obvious: Does anyone knows frequencies of Duxford airfield?

I already have these but I don't know wetter they are reliable/correct.

airfield code (IACO) = EGSU
(all frequencies in MHz)

122.075 EGSU AFIS
122.675 Duxford Ops.
122.900 Duxford traffic (ground and air)


to keep up to date for the visitors list , visit

http://www.airshows.org.uk/2007/airshow ... eview.html



Thanks and best regards: Yannick ;)

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Hi mate!!

I don't really know which frequenties you possibly more need..., anyway


now :offtopic:
Hope you have a nice time!!

Greetings to Kristof and vinnie... :wink: :wink:

rgds:Jeroen

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Post by jan_olieslagers »

Can't be really sure but I seem to remember UK actually has the same situation as Belgium: listening to R/T is officially forbidden but ony very rarely prosecuted. I believe only the Dutch have it officially allowed.

If ever police are on the watchout it will be at a big event like Duxford so I'd recommend some discretion, at least.

PS you can always check the UK Notams, if a temporary frequency is assigned (as is not unusual for meetings/fly-ins) it will surely be mentioned in a Notam.

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Duxford Flying Legends 2007 Report.

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Hello

As promised: The report:


When we arrived 4 of the 5 mustangs where at the line and 1 of them (twilight tear) was inside the hangar for a bit of maintenance.

The other planes where beiing pulled to the line, so we first went to the two very nice museums at Duxford.

Both are located on either side of the Runway. We first went to the museum at the end of the runway. It's a very nice museum with lots of nice planes on the ground and on the ceiling. Although, the opportunities to take pictues are not always good because the planes are very close to each other, but it's very nice done and it's nice to see.

In the first museum are present:

-Consolidated B-24 Liberator
-Boeing B-29 Superfortress
-Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
-Boeing B-52B Stratofortress
-Lockeed SR-71 Blackbird
-Lockeed Martin U-2 Dragonlady (ceiling)
-P-80 Shooting Star (ceiling)
-Fairchield/Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (ceiling)
-Boeing Stearman (ceiling)
-Douglas DC-3 (ceiling)
-North American T6 Texan (ceiling)
-North American P-51D Mustang
-Mc Donnel Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- F-111 Aardvark
-North American B-25 Mitchell (ceiling)
- F-100 Super Sabre (ceiling)
- and some others.

So lot of planes hang on the ceiling and are hanging over each other.

On static display out of the museum are also several historic british airliners among them:

-BAC 1-11 (British Airways)
-Vickers Viscount
-Bristol Brittania (Monarch Airlines)
-Vickers Super VC-10 (BOAC / Cunard)
-Hawker Siddley Trident two (BEA British European Airlines)
-Handley Page Victor (tanker Royal Air Force)
-and others.

The other museum is located on the other end of the Runway, at the entrance of the field.

This one is stowed full of airplanes from English constructors.

Among them:

-BAC Concorde-100 (British Aircraft Company)
-Avro Vulcan
-TSR-2 Spyplane
-Avro Lancaster
-BAe Harrier
-Panavia Tornado
-Comet 4
-English Elektric Lightning
-Canberra
-Westland/Sikorsky helikopter
-Sepecat Jaguar
-and many other military and civilian planes made in England.

The show itself :

The show started very unconventional with a solo demo of a Mc Donnel Douglas F-15E 'Strike Eagle' of the US Air Force based at LN, flewn by Captain Jerry. Was very nice to see this plane at the Flying Legends.

The next part was a heritage flight with the F-15E, 2x P-51D Mustang and the P-39 Airacobra.

-Further there where the scramble of the spitfire's (9 of them in total).
-dogfight between Messerscmitt Me-109 (BF-109) and a Spitfire.
-the display of the 'Cat' family (Wildcat, Hellcat, Bearcat).
-several flying cirkels performed by the two present Ju-52's.
-team Guinot
-Solo displays from the Hurricane, Gloster Gladiator, Tiger Moth, Hawker Nimrod I & II, Polikarpov I-15bis, Douglas Skyraider,Morane Saulnier MS406, Bell P-39Q Airacobra, the two Corsair II, the B-17 Sally B/Memphis Belle, the B-25 Mitchell from the Netherlands Air Force, the DC-3 of Dakota Norway, and of course the Mustangs (featuring the 'Horsemen').
-the solo display of the Bearcat (the joker).
-the massformation.

The mass formation consisted out of:

-2x Corsair II
-5x P-51D Mustang
-1x B-25 Mitchell (closing the formation)
-9x Spitfire
-1x Hurricane
-1x Me-109
-1x Morane Solnier MS406
-Bearcat
-Hellcat
-Wildcat

It was a smaller formation flight than other years, but it always stay nice to see :P

total overview of planes who where there:

-P51D Mustang (x5: Twilight Tear,Old Crow,Ferocious Frankie,Miss Velma,Big Beautifull Doll)
-Supermarine Spitfire (x9)
-Hawker Hurricane (x2)
-Polikarpov I-15bis (Russian Air Force)
-Hawker Nimrod I
-Hawker Nimrod II
-Hawker Hind
-Junkers Ju-52 (x2 : Lufthansa , Salis (EADS))
-Douglas DC-3 (x4 : Dakota Norway, DDA Dutch Dakota Association (PH-PBA, PH-DDA), Royal Air Force Transport)
-Boeing Stearman (x4 : Team Guinot)
-Beech Staggerwing
-B-25 Mitchell (Royal Netherlands Air Force)
-Gloster Gladiator
-Boeing B-17G 'Sally B/Memphis Belle'
-Morane Saulnier MS406
-Grumman F-8F Bearcat
-Grumman F-6F Hellcat
-Grumman FM-2 Wildcat
-Douglas AD-4N Skyraider
-Bell P-39Q Airacobra
-Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (only static)
-Yakolev Yak-11
-Yakolev Yak-52
-Consolidated PBY 'Catalina' (planesailing / US Navy)
-Messerschmitt Me-109 'Buchon'
-Focke Wulf 190
-Tummulisa
-De Havilland 'Dragon Rapide' (x2: touring flights)
-Westland Lysander
-Hawker Sea Fury

And some others, and a lot of general aviation visitors, where among a PC-12/45 and a Cessna Citation Jet.

Two planes where not there: The Avro Lancaster, wich is very bizar because the plane is based in England, the other one was the Lockeed P-38 'Lightning' (glacier Girl) wich was stuck in Goose Bay due to engine problems.


But after all, it was a long tiring travel to there, but we had luck with the weather, we had good places (right in front of the 'Mustang' parking place) and it was a very nice show.

PICTURES CAN BE SEEN AT:

http://coppermine.luchtzak.be/thumbnail ... 668&page=1

Best regards: Yannick
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Hello;

Well, it seems you guys had a nice day... :wink:

The junkers-52 from Lufthansa flew over my house friday i think (or saturday... :oops: )

rgds:Jeroen

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ehamspotter wrote: The junkers-52 from Lufthansa flew over my house friday i think (or saturday... :oops: )
Yes I saw him flying also above my garden (1km from EBAW) It was sunday or saturday I think. :wink:

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It made fuelstops in ANR both Friday and Monday

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this was one of my favorites ...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1236825/L

Also our friend OO-KAT was their from Antwerp !!!

regards Tim

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Hello

Burner_737, yes indeed, she's gorgeous and very shiny!! I also like the 'Mustangs' a lot :P


Best regards: Yannick ;)

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