More action (if you like this sort of thing)

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Action at Duxford – all pics by Lizzie

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Duxford Airshow

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A bit different today

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That’s it for practice day – now for the air show tomorrow.

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Big bonus as pilots practised for tomorrow’s air show

The Harley advertises the English soldiers active in Afghanistan and Africa. The t shirt for this organisation cost a soldier his life in London outside the barracks when two Islamist fundamentalists hacked him to death a few days ago.

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Imperial War Museum

I drove through country roads to Duxford to the IWM on the day before the air show…turned out to be a smart move, very few people about.

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Cambridge

Pub accommodation, early morning Café at the station and thousands of bicycles

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The real deal but a far cry from the newspaper days

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Strategic if not elegant solution to a wet arse

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Where have all the phone boxes gone?

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Paella served below – market in Covent Gardens

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Street persons stash of sleeping gear caught my eye

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While Liz and Kate went shopping…

I made my objective a dash in the steady rain to catch a glimpse of the Thames. Fortune smiled upon me and I found a battered brolly in a rubbish bin which worked a treat

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The “full English” gotta do it

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The mighty little Percival Mew Gull

First time I’ve seen one but from photos I thought the pilot’s vision from the cockpit looked very restricted and surely it is. This aircraft built in the 1930’s was a highly successful long distance racer, only 6 were built.

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I delivered, Connie

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Mini cab – an hour at snail speed, £15

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Mustang in the RAF Museum Hendon

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Back in the day

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Different strokes

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Sunrise over Iraq – last wing pic I promise!

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By careful observation I estimate the wing at the tip lifts about 2 metres once airborne

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And the really good news…no bastard within coughing distance

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Now that’s a bloody big wing full of fuel!

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Off I go…

I’m leaving on a jet plane, an A380 in fact, at 3 this afternoon. Leaving the stable cool air of Tassie to greet what will make it a third summer in one year.  I had to stop myself reading the story of QF3 while part way through as it was all getting too close to the bone…what an amazing story though, and an amazing aircraft. And if I make it, I’ll see if I can find Lizzie and Kate in London.

Bon voyage…

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