The B-17 Sally B/Memphis Belle is parked up
Flying in a Dragon Rapide, IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire - 17th August 2024
Fred's really keen to visit IWM Duxford, so that's what we do, or rather that's what Fred and Nosher do as Isobel's got Jules visiting, and Harry can't be arsed. After we've been looking at aircraft for a while, we hear an announcement about flights on the de Havilland Dragon Rapide - a small passenger aircraft from the 1930s - and discover that they're actually relatively cheap. So with much excitement, we spend about 15 minutes flying around over the fields of Cambridgeshire in a plane that's pushing 90 years old. There's also a lot of other flying activity going on, with the usual two-seater Spitfire trips and plenty of Tiger Moths buzzing around, and there's a special bonus as Fred spots that one of our favourite planes - P-51D Mustang "Marinell" - is at the end of the Working Aircraft hangar, where it seems to have found a new home.
next album: A Trip to Ickworth House with Sis, Horringer - 19th August 2024
previous album: Camping at Weybread, and the BSCC at Cotton and Dickleburgh - 14th August 2024
There's a solitary Victor bomber in a hangar
A giant Rolls-Royce Trent aero engine
Fred looks at the payload of a Lancaster
The exhaust ducts of a pair of Olympus engines
Fred looks around on Condorde 001
Concorde's flight deck
Another older flight deck
Fred looks at model aircraft
We have a look at a Panavia Tornado
A helicopter and an English Electric Lightning
Fred roams around on a Comet 4
The chaotic flightdeck of a Comet 4
A Comet 4's engine intakes
Fred gets a photo of one of the Black Buck Vulcans
Black Buck pilot Martin Withers in listed
The cabin of an Avro York - a civilian Lancaster
Crowds mill around under Concorde
The legendary Mosquito - the Wooden Wonder
A tiny Miles Magister trainer
The two-seater Spitfire heads off on a sortie
The iconic silhouette of a passing Spitfire
Another Spitfire in USAAF markings
A taxiing Spitfire
A Bristol Blenheim is readied for flight
The DeHavilland Dragon Rapide 'Nettie'
We check out the working-aircraft-in-repair hangar
A stripped-back Hawker Tempest
Fred spots old friend Marinell in the hangar
Fred tries to get a photo of Marinell
Marinell through the safety glass
Duxford's control tower
The latest Spitfire passenger gets a photo
The Spitfire is refuelled
The Spitfire pilot updates his logbook
A Britten-Norman Trislander
The nose of the mighty B-52 bomber
We stop for a snack and a drink in the café
Fred checks the headroom with a B-52's belly
We look at a mock up of a V-1 bomb and its launcher
An original pre-fabricated bungalow
Fred does thumbs up under a 9½' gun
The giant Bristol Brittania
A Gloster Meteor
The pilot and crew hang around
The Mk. IX Spitfire 9G-Q/MJ627
Fred scopes out our 'ride'
The Dragon Rapide G-AKIF at Duxford
The pilot checks that we're all strapped in
A single-seater deHavilland Vampire
The wheatfields of Cambridgeshire
Fred takes photos out of the window
A view of Duxford airfield
Cambridge and the M11
Addenbrooke's ever-expanding hospital site
The outdoor collection of British airliners
Cambridge fields through the wings of a biplane
A rear view of the Dragon Rapide
There's a nice lineup of warbirds on the grass
The Shackleton is being restored in a hangar
A Rolls-Royce Griffon and contra-rotating props
An original WWII hangar
A wall of various aircraft engines
Fred under the Shackleton's tailplane
A biplane is worked on
A Hurricane called 'Soph'
More Spitfires in an original WWII hangar
The British Antarctic Survey's Twin Otter
The other side of Sally-B
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The B-17 Sally B/Memphis Belle is parked up
The B-17 Sally B/Memphis Belle is parked up
There's a solitary Victor bomber in a hangar
A giant Rolls-Royce Trent aero engine
Fred looks at the payload of a Lancaster
The exhaust ducts of a pair of Olympus engines
Fred looks around on Condorde 001
Concorde's flight deck
Another older flight deck
Fred looks at model aircraft
We have a look at a Panavia Tornado
A helicopter and an English Electric Lightning
Fred roams around on a Comet 4
The chaotic flightdeck of a Comet 4
A Comet 4's engine intakes
Fred gets a photo of one of the Black Buck Vulcans
Black Buck pilot Martin Withers in listed
The cabin of an Avro York - a civilian Lancaster
Crowds mill around under Concorde
The legendary Mosquito - the Wooden Wonder
A tiny Miles Magister trainer
The two-seater Spitfire heads off on a sortie
The iconic silhouette of a passing Spitfire
Another Spitfire in USAAF markings
A taxiing Spitfire
A Bristol Blenheim is readied for flight
The DeHavilland Dragon Rapide 'Nettie'
We check out the working-aircraft-in-repair hangar
A stripped-back Hawker Tempest
Fred spots old friend Marinell in the hangar
Fred tries to get a photo of Marinell
Marinell through the safety glass
Duxford's control tower
The latest Spitfire passenger gets a photo
The Spitfire is refuelled
The Spitfire pilot updates his logbook
A Britten-Norman Trislander
The nose of the mighty B-52 bomber
We stop for a snack and a drink in the café
Fred checks the headroom with a B-52's belly
We look at a mock up of a V-1 bomb and its launcher
An original pre-fabricated bungalow
Fred does thumbs up under a 9½' gun
The giant Bristol Brittania
A Gloster Meteor
The pilot and crew hang around
The Mk. IX Spitfire 9G-Q/MJ627
Fred scopes out our 'ride'
The Dragon Rapide G-AKIF at Duxford
The pilot checks that we're all strapped in
A single-seater deHavilland Vampire
The wheatfields of Cambridgeshire
Fred takes photos out of the window
A view of Duxford airfield
Cambridge and the M11
Addenbrooke's ever-expanding hospital site
The outdoor collection of British airliners
Cambridge fields through the wings of a biplane
A rear view of the Dragon Rapide
There's a nice lineup of warbirds on the grass
The Shackleton is being restored in a hangar
A Rolls-Royce Griffon and contra-rotating props
An original WWII hangar
A wall of various aircraft engines
Fred under the Shackleton's tailplane
A biplane is worked on
A Hurricane called 'Soph'
More Spitfires in an original WWII hangar
The British Antarctic Survey's Twin Otter
The other side of Sally-B