Southport Air Show

[Damaged]

Anybody else here go to Southport Airshow today?

Weather was crap but was well worth it!

Anybody else heard a Typhoon with the after burners lit a close quarters?

 

[Hitch]

I didn't

Was in Southport working the other day.

Saw a lancaster flyover at the steam fair the other day. That was impressive, seemed so slow compared with todays stuff, its a miracle it stays in the air!

 

[Damaged]

Saw a Lancaster and a B52 at Barrow a couple of years ago, awesome sight.

Untill today I thought the Chinook and Apache were noisy, still can't get the sound of that Typhoon out of my head - Awesome.

Will post some pics later.

 

[malcolm]

Yours was a proper typhoon or one of the more modern versions? Wonderful things.

We are very lucky here - Shuttleworth is close and the elderly aircraft seem to use the farm for navigation. Very often have Spitfires low overhead (you really can tell them from the sound), and once a blue painted Shackleton which was barely moving. Aerobatic practice for the little modern things is over an adjoining field and that's fun to watch too.

 

[Damaged]

Hi Malcom,

It was one of the Euro-fighter variants, I love the sight and sound of the WW2 era planes but the jets are something to behold when you get "near"

 

[Damaged]

Forgive me if some of the images are a bit out of focus but these things weren't exactly hanging about!

 

[malcolm]

Of course - the proper ones don't have afterburners!

Vulcans were cool. Thunderous noise. I hear they've got one flying again.

 

[Damaged]

Not sure why the other images wont upload, is there a size limit?

All pics were posted the same way, camera is a Canon Eos digital so the file size is quite large.

 

[malcolm]

It's a pixel limit for the image resizing software. I've never quite worked out what the limit is. It's on the list of things to sort out.

 

[Robotstar5]

I'd like to see an EE Lightning flying again. their rate of climb was amazing

 

[Drains]

We were on the beach at Crosby looking at Anthony Gormley's naked impressions of himself today when the red Arrows flew over. I assume that was part of the Southport show. Lots of WW2 stuff yesterday over the 'Pool.

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

once saw a Lightning 'stand on it's tail' at RAF Binbrook and disappear from sight straight up. The commentator said some time later that the aircraft had reached 100,000 feet.

I believe the record is 113,000 in a Lightning.

Regards
Peter

 

[Drains]

I remember doing a bit of joinery in an ops room at an RAF base in Devon in '87 (or thereabouts), and some officer chappie telling me they still used Lightnings, (much to my surprise, as they were well old even then), because they were still the only plane the RAF had which could vertically climb and intercept the Russian spy planes, which were still intruding in those days.