Shuttleworth Collection Air Pageant September 7th

[harrysone]

Just got back from 3 week vacation in Europe & was able to attend the Shuttleworth Collection Air Pageant when I was in the UK in early September. They have a nice eclectic collection of mainly British aircraft...

The highlight would have to be seeing the DH-88 Comet fly in its first public outing since about 1987.

Here are a few pics I took...

















































Good to see TVAL's Be2Es in action too...



and the Battle of Britain Flight contributed a couple of flypasts...

[skyhawkdon]

Fantastic photos

[suthg]

Yes- what a great array and variety of craft - thanks for sharing the range with us!!

The DH88 Comet does look spiffing!! She had high compression ratio Gypsy Six's for the MacRobertson International Air Race, a race between London and Melbourne in 1934... Only 5 were ever built and three flew in the same race. G-ACSS Grosvenor House was the winner.

[Dave Homewood]

Awesome!

[kiwitone]

the hurricane Lysander break looks good, and pretty rare to get too. thanks Harrysone.

[harrysone]

thanks..here's a few more

[suthg]

Ooops - posted three times then - something went wrong! Neat photos though.

[harrysone]

Oops not sure how that happened...I posted it really quickly though, just before I had to go out?

[Dave Homewood]

Sorted!

These are great photos Harry!

[harrysone]

there were some really good photo opportunities, apparently it was southern England's 1st fine weekend in 6 weeks (they had a pretty crappy summer) and the team at Shuttleworth were able to put everything up that was on the program, a first for some time...a few more shots...

[harrysone]

by the way, good footage of "Grosvenor House" (taken on the day) is here...

[fwx]

Hard to believe that a Desoutter (like G-AAPZ) also managed to fly from London to Australia. Not quite as racey looking as the Comet, but two Kiwis did it in 1934!