Airshow Etiquette.... by neiwil
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RULE 1...NO SMOKING ON THE FLIGHT LINE.
Rob's pre-Duxford post of a Hawker Sea Fury ISS, "Gentlemen start your engines" was rightly picked for LWITG...As we took our seats this year, there sat the same plane right in front of us.When the time came we both raised our cameras as it roared into life.....with barely a whisp of smoke.They'd obviously had the 'chimneys' swept.To our right the venerable old 'Stringbag' was made ready.A few manual turns of the prop to wind up the rubber band, then a guy stepped up on the wing root and began cranking, the pilot hit the starter and.....
I knew there were 2 of these flying in this country but until this taxied by, I hadn't realised which one it was.It has a Liver Bird on the nose and is called 'City of Liverpool' to commemorate the Fleet Air Arms role in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Tomorrow...plug in your widest monitor for a 'pano-plane'..The B-17 'Sally B' LIFESIZE.....well, as close as Rendo will allow ....
Got to say a huge thanks for all the faves of late, but it just means I'm going to keep taking BIG pictures :-) Oh, almost forgot!...more pictures and VIDEO Click Here
Comments (13)
bmac62
A glorious experience for us plane nuts. A nice series of three Neil. Is this the type that messed up the stearing of the Bismarck?
tigertim
Excellent collage.. didn't realise Stringbags had a built in smoke screen apparatus!
blinkings
Sweet mate.
fly028
Another great living composition! Great idea, just like a film. Keep sharing such nice photos! thanks
Maxidyne
Wonderful series Neil. What would these planes be without their start up smoke. Post em as big as Rendo will allow, the more detail the better. Check out that video link folks...Lancaster flyby especially awesome!
Tamarrion
Cool collage! Would love to see a Swordfish fly. There's an airworthy one in Halifax, but I don't think they dare let it out of the museum. bmac62 - yep, this was the type that crippled Bismark. "Obsolete" as they were by then, they flew too slow & too low for her anti-aircraft guns to properly target.
papy2
Great shots.
UVDan
Superb, superb.
flavia49
fabulous sequence!
Briney
Ah the smell of Swordfish in the morning... Still, they'd be cheap to operate... perhaps the Gov't could roll back to operating Stringbags and save a "motza" as they say.
debbielove
Well, mate!!! This was going to be todays Legends post LOL So it's back to the drawing board! Good job I looked here first LOL No, actually, I have an emergency post I must stick up first... So it's not a problem... Yep, great disappointment when the Sea Fury started up 'clean'! lol But Duxford disappeared under a vast cloud of smoke as the old Swordfish started! Glorious! This is what we wanted, we said choking back our tea! LOL Great collage mate Well posted! Rob
T.Rex
Yay! An old stringbag! I wonder what active duty this plane has seen during its active years? I think not only of the Bismarck, but all other torpedo attacks it was designed and used for! Nice to see the "engine fart" / smoke from the ignition. I wonder - was that a real or dud / mock-up torpedo strung up on its underside? The real ones were very heavy. As Briney says, maybe the govt. should invest in this type of planes - cheap to manufacture and fly, the Bismarck's modern AA couldn't shoot them down, small / no radar profile, small turning radius, probably outdo any Argie air force jet! And defeat any moderna ship to air missile system, yet get close enough to wham with a torpedo or cruise missile! And THANKS for the link to the video. You were a ways off, but the sounds of engines working still got through! Wonderful! Keep up the good work! :-)
Tryphon
Wow! Nice sequence of a start up. The Canadian navy also used the stringbag, there is one at the Ottawa aviation museum, but it's a static display. It's just not the same as being there with a thundering engine.