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Lightning aircraft crashes at Duxford airshow

Lightning Crash...

Essais au sol du focke wulf ww2 FW190 Duxford 2007, (No fly..) only FW-190 run up video clip, test check engine and taxi sorry but no fly permit at this day.. see you in 2009 in EGSU. enjoy the film.In June 1942, a Luftwaffe deserter fortuitously presented the Allies with his Fw 190A fighter intact, the detailed examination of this remarkable product of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau profoundly influenced fighter thinking in Britain. It directly result in the issue of specification F.2/43 to which was designed the Hawker Fury, embodying numerous features directly copied from the Fw 190A, and F.19/43 which produced the Folland Fo.118 fighter project, also owing much to the design of the Fw 190A. What higher tribute could have been paid to what was undoubtedly the finest warplane to which Germany gave birth. The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Ranks with the Supermarine Spitfire, Vought F4U Corsair and North American P-51 Mustang as one of the best fighters of World War II. The Focke-Wulf 190 was the work of a team of German designers headed by the famous Kurt Tank. It was evolved basically as a successor to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, although the official view was that it would never be capable of matching the operational prowess of the Bf 109. How wrong this proved! Chief company designer Kurt Tank's Wurger (Butcher Bird) was Germanys most potent piston-powered World War II fighter When the Fw 190A entered combat in the summer of 1941. It immediately outclassed the Spitfire V, which appeared sluggish and outdated by comparison. From that time on, in spite of some severe problems with the BMW 801 engine, the 190 kept even or ahead of Allied fighters through successive versions.The BMW 801 engine tended to overheat, but this fault was rectified by improvements to the cooling fan and, in general, the Fw 190A was highly praised by the test pilots. They particularly favored the wide-track undercarriage which tremendously improved ground stability as compared with the Bf 109. One of the unusual features of the fighter commented on by test pilots was the fact that, at high altitude and high speed, the BMW 801 engine produced a pair of contrails which started immediately behind the exhaust exits and completely hid the wings. The Fw 190 prototype first flew on June 1,1939 and production deliveries began in late 1940. Within a year, Fw l90s were making low-level sweeps over southern England in daylight, against which the Spitfire Vs, then in service, achieved little success. The situation did not improve until the Royal Air Force received more powerful Spitfire IXs, in partnership with four-cannon Typhoons. In the autumn of 1937 the Reichluftministerium placed an order with the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau for the design development of a new single-seat fighter to supplement the Messerschmitt Bf 109. A second

FW190 Duxford 2007

5th October 2008Part one of what started as a horrible wet, cold and windy day, but finished up being a pretty good air show, even if they couldn't display to their full potential :)In this part, some photos of the museum, photos of the Catalina (G-PBYA), Hawk and Tucano display. Chipmunk (WP929) does a lovely display and the two T-28 Fennecs taxiing out to display. Full display from the Belgian F-16. The Fennecs do their display and some of the Royal Navy Black cats display.

Duxford Autumn...

The Real Aeroplane Company's newly restored Hispano HA-1112 'Buchon' (Spanish built & Rolls Royce Merlin Powered BF109G) filmed by me on the Sunday of this years (2006) Flying Legends, held at Duxford, Cambs.

Hispano HA-1112...

WWII hurricane crashes on landing at Duxford, UK

Hurricane crash,...

Taining Bell P39 with Patrice Marchasson flying with Nick Grey, at Curtiss 75 control, a few days before the huge yearly flying legends warbird airshow of england. paris le bourget armee de l'air mirage 2000. dinslaken.Along with the P-40, the Airacobra was one of the few U.S. fighters available in large numbers at the start of the war. While its lack of a turbosupercharger made it ineffective about 12,000 feet and while it was generally outclassed by the Zero, it served well in the early months of the war. It was relatively free of mechanical defects and breakdowns; like most American aircraft it could absorb a lot of enemy gunfire and still return its pilot back to base. Over half of the Airacobras produced, almost 5000 planes, went to the Soviet Union. The first P-39s to reach Soviet hands were delivered from Britain, who had rejected the aircraft after it failed RAF flight testing in late 1941. After accelerated ground and flight testing the Soviet government agreed to delivery of large numbers of Airacobras through the Lend-Lease program. Between 1942 and 1944, Soviet ferry pilots flew approximately 2,600 P-39s into the USSR from Fairbanks, Alaska. Another 2,000 were shipped (crated) to Iran, assembled, inspected, and flown to Soviet bases east of the Caucasus Mountains. The majority of the 4,600 P-39s shipped to the Soviet Union were the highly developed Q-models. Many of these, at Soviet request, lacked the two wing-mounted .50-caliber machine gun pods. - The Fighter Collection operates, rebuilds and maintains Europe's largest collection of airworthy WWII aircraft and is based at Duxford Airfield, in the UK. Run by a professional team of engineers and pilots for both airshow and film work, the aircraft fly all over Europe during the summer months to attend airshows from Austria to Switzerland. The fleet comprises of aircraft from the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and Italy - and the collection is constantly expanding as new aeroplanes are acquired. The TFC is one of the premier collections of warbirds in Europe. Based in Duxford's Hanger 2 (and parts of hanger 3), The Fighter Collection is owned by Stephen Grey, whose intention it was to own an example of every allied fighter type flown in WWII.- But in October of 1942, I was thrilled to be flying it. It was unique, with its engine behind the cockpit, and the propeller drive shaft running between the pilot's legs. It had a tricycle landing gear, unlike anything in our arsenal except the P-38. And the cockpit was more like a car's, with a door instead of a swing-up or sliding canopy, and windows that actually rolled up and down with a crank. You could taxi the thing while resting your elbows on the sill, like cruising the boulevard on a Saturday night.Spitfire, Corsair, Mustang are flying also at Duxford.. armee de l'air mirage 2000 Arnold..

Bell P39...

5th October 2008Part two of what started as a horrible wet, cold and windy day, but finished up being a pretty good air show, even if they couldn't display to their full potential :) In this Part, the Patrouille de France do two flypasts, the weather was far to bad for them to do any kind of full display, which was a shame but huge thanks to them for doing the flypasts :)Also Flight Lieutenant Charlie Matthews doing a rather impressive display :DI'm really sorry about the quality, I know it's horribly out of focus on the Typhoon, I couldn't keep up with it and my camera couldn't focus on him quick enough, it isn't a camcorder, just a normal digital camera that has a video feature, so anything fast moving is just a blur lol. So you'll have to excuse that :)

Duxford Autumn...

`As above

Duxford Masters 2008

Ferry Flight to...

Cavalcade of wheeled vehicles around Duxford airfield.

Army & Military...

Flightline and engine startupSorry for the shaky camera. I couldn't get a good spot, so had to hold my camcorder above my head to see over the people in front of me. I also had to leave early so had to film while making my way to the exit, and the very last shots were filmed from the bus stop!

Welcome on board for this video clip in action. Quelques image embarquee au sol, a bord du Corsair F4U4 210 en patrouille avec Brian Smith lors du dernier display de flying legends duxford 2007.. les dernieres images en Formation a 2 corsairs, DUXFORD EGSU, ce corsair F4U a ete vendu en septembre 2007, il va partir aux USA.Video Airshow Flying Legends display demo formation, on bord Corsair, during start up radial engine, and taxi, with the corsair at Memorial Flying legend Duxford jully 2007 low pass and aerobatic display , this Chance Vought Corsair is not in france anymore , Sorry but sold, and now it is in USA ... - A sea fury will replace, coming from Sanders brothers USA,

A bord du F4U4...

See inside and out of a BOAC VC-10 Vintage aircraft at Duxford

3 - Duxford -...

Here is start up griffon engine on the spitfire flightline.Large flying formation at flying legends airshow 2008. salon. great power. airshow paris le bourget armee de l'air mirage 2000.The Fighter Collection operates, rebuilds and maintains Europe's largest collection of airworthy WWII aircraft and is based at Duxford Airfield, in the UK. Run by a professional team of engineers and pilots for both airshow and film work, the aircraft fly all over Europe during the summer months to attend airshows from Austria to Switzerland. The fleet comprises of aircraft from the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and Italy - and the collection is constantly expanding as new aeroplanes are acquired. The TFC is one of the premier collections of warbirds in Europe. Based in Duxford's Hanger 2 (and parts of hanger 3), The Fighter Collection is owned by Stephen Grey, whose intention it was to own an example of every allied fighter type flown in WWII. - Duxford airfield dates to 1918 when many of the buildings were constructed by German prisoner-of-war labour. The airfield housed 8 Squadron in 1919--1920 which was equipped with F.2Bs. The airfield was then used by No. 2 Flying Training School until, April 1923 when 19 Squadron was formed at Duxford with Sopwith Snipes. By 1925 Duxford's three fighter squadrons had expanded to include the Gloster Grebes and Armstrong Whitworth Siskins. No.19 Squadron re-equipped with Bristol Bulldogs in 1931, and in 1935, was the first squadron to fly the RAF's fastest new fighter, the Gloster Gauntlet, capable of 230 mph (375 km/h). The station was enlarged between 1928 and 1932. In 1935, Duxford was the venue for the Silver Jubilee Review before King George V and Queen Mary, the resident squadron still being 19. This squadron gave a special demonstration over Duxford for the King. In 1936 Flight Lieutenant Frank Whittle, who was studying at Cambridge University, flew regularly from Duxford as a member of the Cambridge University Air Squadron. Whittle went on to develop the jet turbine as a means of powering an aircraft, this enabled Britain to produce the Allies' first operational jet fighter in 1943 - the Gloster Meteor. In 1938 No.19 squadron was the first RAF squadron to fly the new Supermarine Spitfire, the first Spitfire was flown into Duxford in August 1938 by Jeffrey Quill, Supermarine's test pilot. On 3 September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany and Duxford was ready to play a vital role. By June 1940 Belgium, the Netherlands and France were under German control and the invasion of Britain was their next objective (Operation Sealion). Duxford was placed in a high state of readiness, to create space for additional units at Duxford, 19 Squadron moved to nearby Fowlmere. The dominance of the skies over Britain would be totally critical to keeping German forces out, this became known as The Battle of Britain. Hurricanes first arrived at Duxford in July with the formation of 310 Squadron, which consisted of Czechoslovakian pilots escaped from France. At the end of August Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory ordered the Hurricanes of 242 Squadron, down from Coltishall to join 19 and 310 Squadrons on daily standby at Duxford. A real bouncing bombOn 9 September the Duxford squadrons successfully intercepted and turned back a large force of German bombers before they reached their target. This proved Duxford's importance, so two more squadrons were added to the Wing, No.302 (Polish) Squadron with Hurricanes, and the Spitfires of No.611 Auxiliary Squadron which had mobilised at Duxford a year before. On average sixty Spitfires and Hurricanes were dispersed around Duxford and RAF Fowlmere every day. On 15 September 1940 they twice took to the air to repulse Luftwaffe attacks intent at bombing London. RAF fighter Command was victorious, the threat of invasion passed and Duxford's squadrons had played a critical role. This became known as 'Battle of Britain Day'.Low pass high speed DC3 Dakota Douglas. nice jeep willys on airstreep.- Pilot team:

Spitfire, Start...

Part three of what started as a horrible wet, cold and windy day, but finished up being a pretty good air show, even if they couldn't display to their full potential :) In this Part, Various war birds* from the Duxford based Fighter Collection and Old flying machine company get to show their stuff. Also the fantastic takoff from the Extra 300.*the intro on the vid should say P-39, but I must have hit the 0 instead of the 9 whilst typing, and didn't notice till after I had uploaded so please excuse that typo.

Duxford Autumn...

Footage I took at Duxford Legends Airshow July 10 2005. Part 1 of 3

Duxford Legends...

Contains Lancaster (one of the two that currently fly in the world), 5 spitfires, 2 hurricanes and a Dakota. All very close overhead. This is footage I took myself, which I put into this video for all to see.

BBMF Duxford...

Me, Dad and Friends of Duxford members at the north side tour 2006 (the part of the airfield on the other side of the road that is not open to the public).The title slide is what happened before the gates opened and our Volvo 760 Turbo wouldn't start, thought to be an overheating problem (later turned out to be an immobiliser fault). Kindly pushed inside gates by some good samaritans and marshals. The car is fine now and is still used as our family cab (lol)!www.iwm.org.uk/duxford

Duxford North...

Original four fighters displaySorry for the shaky camera. I couldn't get a good spot, so had to hold my camcorder above my head to see over the people in front of me. I also had to leave early so had to film while making my way to the exit, and the very last shots were filmed from the bus stop!

Visiting Duxford April 2007. Lucky me met Tom Blair and Cliff Spink.

FW190 at Duxford

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the pilot and armament. The aircraft was used in a number of different roles, including dive bombing, level bombing, ground strafing, photo reconnaissance missions,and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with droppable fuel tanks under its wings. The P-38 was used most extensively and successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, where it was flown by the American pilots with the highest number of aerial victories to this date. America's top ace Richard Bong earned 40 victories (in a Lightning he called Marge), and Thomas McGuire (in Pudgy) scored 38. In the South West Pacific theater, it was a primary fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs toward the end of the war.The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in active production throughout the duration of American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day.The aircraft was performing at the 'Flying Legends' Air Displayat Duxford, which was being stagedover the two days of the weekendof 13/14 July 1996. The display on 13 July was completedwithoutincident. On 14 July, the aircraft had taken off at 1435 hrsas the lead aircraft in a formationcomprising one Curtiss P-40BTomahawk and one Bell P-63 King Cobra fighter aircraft. Thedisplay'slot' commenced at 1439 hrs and after several formation passesin front of the assembly ofspectators, the trio split up in orderto enable each aircraft to carry out a solo display. The P-38wasthe final aircraft to perform its solo routine and was dueto clear the display area by 1455 hrs. Theaircraft commencedits run in from the east of the airfield, in a shallow dive togain speed, thencarried out a loop. This manoeuvre was followedby a 'Cuban Eight' manoeuvre, which involvedtwo short periodsof flight under negative 'g'. As the aircraft returned to normalpositive 'g' flightafter each of these periods, a slight trailof light coloured vapour was noted coming from under themainbody of the aircraft (post-accident consideration of the aircraftsystems concluded that this wasmost likely to have been vapourescaping from the fuel tank vent lines).At the end of the 'Cuban Eight', the aircraft was passing fromeast to west (crowd left to right). Itpulled up and to the leftinitially, levelled the wings, then performed a 270° rollto the left. Theaircraft then came back to pass acrossthe front of the crowd from west to east.With the aircraft appearing to be at a normal entry height andspeed, an aileron roll to the left wascommenced as the aircraftcrossed the western threshold of the hard surfaced Runway 06. The first360° roll was completed apparently normally butthe aircraft continued, without pause, into asecond full roll. While the aircraft was inverted in this second roll, the nosepitched towards theground and the aircraft began to lose heightwhile the roll continued. By the time the aircraftbecame uprightagain, it had descended to a very low height above the runway. The aircraftcontinued to roll left and struck the runway withits left wing, with some 30° of left bank applied,abouttwo thirds of the way along Runway 06.The left outer wing ruptured and collapsed, followed by an impactof the left engine. At this time, alarge fireball erupted asthe aircraft began to cartwheel across the airfield, breakingup into multiplefragments as its trajectory took it diagonallyaway from the main spectator area towards a row ofparked lightaircraft on the south side of the airfield. Several of theseaircraft were destroyed orseverely damaged in the wreckage'spath

P-38 Lightning...

Part five of what started as a horrible wet, cold and windy day, but finished up being a pretty good air show, even if they couldn't display to their full potential :) In this Part, The old flying machine company's Spitfire Mk IXB, MH434 and P51-D Mustang, Ferocious Frankie, display together.I forgot to put it in the credits, but the song is Gravity by Embrace.

Duxford Autumn...

This is part 3 of my series of videos covering the whole of the 2007 duxford flying legends airshow. This section shows the 'guinot' wing walkers.

2007 duxford...

Spitfire MK18 ready for run up at Duxford JULY 2008.. Rebuilding is nearly completed..The Fighter Collection operates, rebuilds and maintains Europe's largest collection of airworthy WWII aircraft and is based at Duxford Airfield, in the UK. Run by a professional team of engineers and pilots for both airshow and film work, the aircraft fly all over Europe during the summer months to attend airshows from Austria to Switzerland. The fleet comprises of aircraft from the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and Italy - and the collection is constantly expanding as new aeroplanes are acquired.The TFC is one of the premier collections of warbirds in Europe. Based in Duxford's Hanger 2 (and parts of hanger 3), The Fighter Collection is owned by Stephen Grey, whose intention it was to own an example of every allied fighter type flown in WWII.- Duxford airfield dates to 1918 when many of the buildings were constructed by German prisoner-of-war labour. The airfield housed 8 Squadron in 1919--1920 which was equipped with F.2Bs. The airfield was then used by No. 2 Flying Training School until, April 1923 when 19 Squadron was formed at Duxford with Sopwith Snipes.By 1925 Duxford's three fighter squadrons had expanded to include the Gloster Grebes and Armstrong Whitworth Siskins. No.19 Squadron re-equipped with Bristol Bulldogs in 1931, and in 1935, was the first squadron to fly the RAF's fastest new fighter, the Gloster Gauntlet, capable of 230 mph (375 km/h). The station was enlarged between 1928 and 1932. In 1935, Duxford was the venue for the Silver Jubilee Review before King George V and Queen Mary, the resident squadron still being 19. This squadron gave a special demonstration over Duxford for the King.In 1936 Flight Lieutenant Frank Whittle, who was studying at Cambridge University, flew regularly from Duxford as a member of the Cambridge University Air Squadron. Whittle went on to develop the jet turbine as a means of powering an aircraft, this enabled Britain to produce the Allies' first operational jet fighter in 1943 - the Gloster Meteor.In 1938 No.19 squadron was the first RAF squadron to fly the new Supermarine Spitfire, the first Spitfire was flown into Duxford in August 1938 by Jeffrey Quill, Supermarine's test pilot.On 3 September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany and Duxford was ready to play a vital role. By June 1940 Belgium, the Netherlands and France were under German control and the invasion of Britain was their next objective (Operation Sealion). Duxford was placed in a high state of readiness, to create space for additional units at Duxford, 19 Squadron moved to nearby Fowlmere. The dominance of the skies over Britain would be totally critical to keeping German forces out, this became known as The Battle of Britain. Hurricanes first arrived at Duxford in July with the formation of 310 Squadron, which consisted of Czechoslovakian pilots escaped from France. At the end of August Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory ordered the Hurricanes of 242 Squadron, down from Coltishall to join 19 and 310 Squadrons on daily standby at Duxford.A real bouncing bombOn 9 September the Duxford squadrons successfully intercepted and turned back a large force of German bombers before they reached their target. This proved Duxford's importance, so two more squadrons were added to the Wing, No.302 (Polish) Squadron with Hurricanes, and the Spitfires of No.611 Auxiliary Squadron which had mobilised at Duxford a year before.On average sixty Spitfires and Hurricanes were dispersed around Duxford and RAF Fowlmere every day. On 15 September 1940 they twice took to the air to repulse Luftwaffe attacks intent at bombing London. RAF fighter Command was victorious, the threat of invasion passed and Duxford's squadrons had played a critical role. This became known as 'Battle of Britain Day'.

Spitfire Griffon...

This the end of Corsair demo display Team... Voila.. 10 ans de voltige patrouille F4U4 a Duxford flying legends EGSU , C'est fini..! ce Chance vought Corsair F4U 210, a ete vendu aux USA en Septembre 2007 pour faire venir en France un Sea Furry prevu pour debut 2009 a bientot pour de nouvelles aventures.here are 10 years of flying formation display in action with Brian Smith at Memorial Duxford flying legends airshow.... Now, it's over, this Navy corsair was sold in september 2007, back to USA....Sea furry is comming soon to replace.(expected for early month of 2009) from Sanders brothers workshop. USA

Formation two...

C130 from RNZAF Picks up Group of Trainee officers and Equipment from Duxford for flight back to Christchurch and WhenuapaiVia Middle east and Southeast Asia.RNZAF Capt. Ian Canterbury and Flt. Lt. Taionga Wakiriri in command. and crew of 7.Loadmaster FLT SGT.NINIAN

I took the wife for a Tiger Moth flight from Duxford as a late Birthday present, as an after thought, we had a flight in this lovely De Havilland Dragon Rapide. Those Gipsy 6s sound great.

De Havilland...

Airshow 14 October 2007, Duxford, UKFeaturing Spitfire, P-51 Mustang, Me-109, F-86 Sabre, Hawker Hunter, F-16, and other glorious war birds

Duxford Air Show...

A few of the aircraft and other exhibits one can see at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.

Duxford Hangar 3. Collection of clips from my Fuji 5600.

Duxford Hangar 3...

A short video overview of D-Day airshow at Duxford, UK in 2004. Includes Spitfires, Apache, display teams etc.

Duxford D-Day...

Lots of Spitfires passes by for the Balbo line up at Duxford Flying Legends 2007

Spitfire crazy at...

25 CFM Shadows take part in a Fly Past at the Duxford Airshow in the early 1990s

Duxford Airshow

Footage I took at Duxford Legends Airshow July 10 2005 Part 2 of 3.

Duxford Legends...

Duxford Hangar 4. Collection of clips from my Fuji 5600

Duxford Hangar 4...

Formation of Lancaster, 5 Spitfires and 2 HurricanesSorry for the shaky camera. I couldn't get a good spot, so had to hold my camcorder above my head to see over the people in front of me. I also had to leave early so had to film while making my way to the exit, and the very last shots were filmed from the bus stop!

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