Quote Originally Posted by Lachlan09 View Post
Great photos ! I’d bite my arm off to be there to see “The Wooden Wonder” whizzing past ! In 2003, I took my family to the Duxford Classic Air Show in the UK and saw many amazing WW2 planes flying. Of course, the fast-heart beat was reserved for the 7 (I think) Spitfires taking off and passing overhead (some were Merlin-engined who took off from the grass, some were Griffon taking off from the runway). The BoB Flight Lanc (I think City of Lincoln) was flying too with the Spit and Hurricane. So were a number P51’s, B-17, a couple of P-40’s, a F4U Corsair, a Bearcat and a Black Widow. There were 2 Ju 52’s and a pre-war German bi-plane fighter (a Henschel perhaps), Russian fighters, RN FAA fighters etc etc. Sadly, we witnessed a Fairey Firefly doing a steep climb, then plummet into a field. The crew died.

There were also various planes there on display in the airfield which, though flown there, I did not see fly that day.

I wished there had been Mosquito or two flying there.

Do you have any Mosquito pix ?
I don't have any Mosquito pics, but I have been sent a bunch of photos by other attendees, and will search amongst them. Sorry to hear about the fatalities---I wondered at this weekend how safe it was for the pilots and crew of these craft, who were conducting some relatively high G maneuvers in some instances, and after all, these are aircraft that are 65 years old. They had significant failure rates when they were fresh off the assembly line, much less some six plus decades later. Seems a risky business, but I enjoyed it very much nontheless...