Duxford Concord Nose Droop

 As part of their evening's entertainment on November 5th, Phil was in the captain's seat to demonstrate the lowering of Concorde's nose etc in front of a very big crowd. All went well with the heat shield, nose lowering etc as the plane made its imaginary c. 2 hour journey from London to New York. 

Duxford Concorde Evening Visit

Yesterday evening, I accompanied Phil to Duxford where he was helping entertain a corporate group from Rolls Royce with a Concorde Nose Droop. Here he is in the First Officer seat operating the controls with 'Captain' Simon. After the demonstration, they turned off the main lighting giving great photographic opportunities. The group had their dinner under the wings of the various central aeroplanes such as the Sunderland. 

Saturday Evening Flying at Duxford

The skies cleared completely on Saturday in time for the Flying Evening at Duxford which concluded with these motorised gliders equipped with lights and fireworks. 

Evening Flying at Duxford

 Here a miscellany of shots from an Evening Flying show at Duxford which featured a pyrotechnics display by two motorised gliders. Some of the shots were taken by Phil on my camera as he didn't get his gear organised before leaving for work in the morning (used faster shutterspeed 1/640th for gliders) while I used a slow shutterspeed (up to 1.6secs) to accentuate the trails and shapes. The moon wasn't quite full but still impressive.

Herald Out, BAE146 In

A visit to Duxford Air museum yesterday to preview a new exhibition inside the museum, but also took the opportunity to look at their newest airliner acquisition, the BAE 146. Unfortunately to display this on the Herald has been sold to another Museum and is in the process of being dismantled. Hope the reassembly instructions are better than the usual flat pack ones. For the interior shots I used a wide angle lens add-on with Fuji X100V  at F2, which gives distortion round the edges of the frame