Aviation Shots from Shuttleworth

[YangMills]

Shuttleworth is an aircraft museum near Bedford UK, where ALL the exhibits are airworthy. They have aircraft from 1909 to the late 1950s. They have several airshows a year. These are from last Saturday.

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Westland Lysander used as a communications aircraft in WWII and specialising in landing British agents behind enemy lines.

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Hawker Sea Hurricane - a version of the Hurricane flown from aircraft carriers.

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DeHavilland Dragon Rapide - the world's only Art Deco aircraft

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Avro Anson. More to come later.

 

[Myles Baker]

I visited Shuttleworth 35 years ago when I was in England on my OE. A really cool collection of planes.

 

[YangMills]

Here are a few more from Shuttleworth airshow

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Southern Martlet - the only existing example of the six built.

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Nailed it!

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EoN Primary glider - a deckchair with wings

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Hawker Tomtit - 1930s RAF trainer.

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[ctitanic]

WOW, were you shooting from another plane or from that ground?

 

[YangMills]

WOW, were you shooting from another plane or from that ground?

Shooting from the ground. You want to capture more topside shots rather than underside, and if you manage that and the clouds are good as I had that day, it gives a powerful impression of flight. Thanks for the kind words.

 

[ctitanic]

Shooting from the ground. You want to capture more topside shots rather than underside, and if you manage that and the clouds are good as I had that day, it gives a powerful impression of flight. Thanks for the kind words.

Yeah but they must have been flying very low to get shots of the topside…

 

[YangMills]

Yeah but they must have been flying very low to get shots of the topside…

Quite low but not ground hugging. It works when they are banking from behind the display line on the right to behind the display line on the left, or vice versa - and it's easier with a small airshow with relatively shorter crowd line as here. You just have to be patient to get them in the right attitude.