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following on from my pics from Duxford on saturday here are some more that i took at on Sunday (from a different location close to the village)





















































and for some, no matter how large your equipment is you just can't get near enough - obviously as the lens was hanging down he considered the corsair to still be too far away!(or maybe to close!!!!)

Nice work Andy, I presume the chap in the last shot was regretting not having his stepladder to hand!

love the pics Andrew,

i will get back to Duxford sometime..............

Xplumberlives wrote:Nice work Andy, I presume the chap in the last shot was regretting not having his stepladder to hand!

probably but some of these definitely didnt need ladders , in fact they would probably have lost their heads:

1: the so called naughty field, I've had a measure up on google earth and some of the spectators on the fields were only 110yds from the centre of the hard runway which I beleive is the display line (please correct me if wrong) personally i think that is far too close for comfort


2: then of course, if you work for the right people you can legally park to get an excellent vantage point - they spend most of the afternoon there, - and probably spent nothing but were paid for the priviledge! sorry about the heat haze but it was very hot on saturday and my line of shot was very close to the ground



3: and on sunday 110 yards would seem to have been far to much for these brave souls, directly under the approach path, a ladder ther would definitely have put you at risk but might have been good for topside shots as they went past you



so .........how close would you go to the centre line of a display just to get a good view?

sorry the quality of these isnt brilliant but thought they might illustrate the lengths that some people will go to to get a good view

Excellent stuff mate

Not sure I would want to be quite so close. Having said that, when I was at Brawdy we quite often did perimeter FOD plods and would always lay/stand behind the catch nets whilst Hawks, Hunters, Seaking, Hercs etc landed or took off right over us. Not sure we would have got away with it during the annual air show though (in thise days the crowd line was much closer anyway).