jinx
June 1st, 2013, 15:48
I am posting two photos I took of two warbirds, Buecker 131's of the Spanish Air Force, flown here. The photos were taken last Sunday , May 26th. at Sleap airfield in Shropshire. Sleap--pronounced [Slape}-- is a former WWII airfield still operating today with the Shropshire Aero Club and being used as a General Aviation airfield and sattelite alternative to Shawbury Airport 7 miles away.
It also has a wonderful small museum with many parts founds by the Wrecked Aircraft Recovery Group base at Sleap.
The two Buecker's did aerobatics and formation flying and I spoke to both pilots. I also took videos and more photos of many other aircraft flying at Sleap that day.
The weather was sunny and clear and we were lucky.
Enjoy these and please remember that these photos are copyrighted to me and it is against the law to distribute them elsewhere or upload them anywhere else without my permission.
Going back to Sleap tomorrow and perhaps Welshpool airfield also.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/Buecker1315.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/Buecker1315.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/Buecker1314.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/Buecker1314.jpg.html)
Photos of two more aircraft, a restored YAk 11 that did a high speed flypast over our heads and a few flights and had the noisiest engine of all the 30 or so types flying, and a Bristol Bulldog former RAF trainer that did a few flights.
Both pilots were over 65 years of age. Both came to refuel a couple of times at 30 meters from me and the Bulldog had great curved lines that do not show in the photos. It carries the later RAF scheme of its career--the one used just prior to withdrawal from service.
On another day, I took hundreds of more photos at the Cosford RAF Museum--of all types of RAF aircraft from 1939 to recent years. Some will be posted soon and I may begin with the Hawker Hunter and the Twin Pioneer and the Wessex helo.
Regards from Plealey, a small village in Shropshire in the U.K.--7 miles from Sleap Airfield.
All is fine here except the food--horrible stuff, and they are right when they say the British cannot cook. I cooked Greek moussaka to recover and today I cooked spaghetti with minced beef in a red tomato-base sauce. That helped and my English friends liked it.
Check out Google earth to see where Plealey and Sleap are located in the country of Shropshire...
The British cannot cook. They produce some of the world's finest meat and poultry but spoil it all by cooking it in the wrong way. Worse than hospital food after an operation. And I am in the middle of the country side with cows and sheep and horses all around me. I also visited Cosford Avation Museum and got many photos of RAF aircraft --will post of those later when I get home to Greece.
I also have video of the Sleap aircraft flying and taxying about...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000216WATERMARKED.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000216WATERMARKED.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000219WATERMARKED.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000219WATERMARKED.jpg.html)
It also has a wonderful small museum with many parts founds by the Wrecked Aircraft Recovery Group base at Sleap.
The two Buecker's did aerobatics and formation flying and I spoke to both pilots. I also took videos and more photos of many other aircraft flying at Sleap that day.
The weather was sunny and clear and we were lucky.
Enjoy these and please remember that these photos are copyrighted to me and it is against the law to distribute them elsewhere or upload them anywhere else without my permission.
Going back to Sleap tomorrow and perhaps Welshpool airfield also.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/Buecker1315.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/Buecker1315.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/Buecker1314.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/Buecker1314.jpg.html)
Photos of two more aircraft, a restored YAk 11 that did a high speed flypast over our heads and a few flights and had the noisiest engine of all the 30 or so types flying, and a Bristol Bulldog former RAF trainer that did a few flights.
Both pilots were over 65 years of age. Both came to refuel a couple of times at 30 meters from me and the Bulldog had great curved lines that do not show in the photos. It carries the later RAF scheme of its career--the one used just prior to withdrawal from service.
On another day, I took hundreds of more photos at the Cosford RAF Museum--of all types of RAF aircraft from 1939 to recent years. Some will be posted soon and I may begin with the Hawker Hunter and the Twin Pioneer and the Wessex helo.
Regards from Plealey, a small village in Shropshire in the U.K.--7 miles from Sleap Airfield.
All is fine here except the food--horrible stuff, and they are right when they say the British cannot cook. I cooked Greek moussaka to recover and today I cooked spaghetti with minced beef in a red tomato-base sauce. That helped and my English friends liked it.
Check out Google earth to see where Plealey and Sleap are located in the country of Shropshire...
The British cannot cook. They produce some of the world's finest meat and poultry but spoil it all by cooking it in the wrong way. Worse than hospital food after an operation. And I am in the middle of the country side with cows and sheep and horses all around me. I also visited Cosford Avation Museum and got many photos of RAF aircraft --will post of those later when I get home to Greece.
I also have video of the Sleap aircraft flying and taxying about...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000216WATERMARKED.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000216WATERMARKED.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jninxnick/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000219WATERMARKED.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jninxnick/media/SLEAP%20MAY%2026%202013/P1000219WATERMARKED.jpg.html)