More aviation fun - Trooping The Colour & Duxford's Summer Airshow
My airshow season has started off 'good and proper' with another visit to London and my first full show of the year at Duxford.
Back in May I went up to London for the VE Day Flypast and a couple of weeks ago I was back (in sunnier weather) for this year's Trooping The Colour flypast.
When I arrived in London I jumped on the tube and was greeted by this excellent poster for one of my favourite musicians Yungblud (as an aside his new album is awesome and is currently my favourite album of the year so far).
I finally managed to visit the Petrie Museum - I've been wanting to go for so long but it's only open certain days of the week as it's part of the University Of London. It was well worth the wait! The museum is only small but is absolutely packed with Egyptian artifacts and is absolutely fascinating, in fact *whispers* I actually now prefer it to the British Museum 😨
The Goddess Isis
Naturally I went searching for Eos, I mean Anubis.
Found her!
Uncanny
What always staggers me is when museums have jewellery that is 1000s of years old but looks like it's just come from the high street!
Just mind blowing
This comb was adorable too
I could have spent all day at the museum but it was time to head to The Mall.
Hello A380
Blue skies over The Mall shocker!
The flypast was great fun as always -
Lancaster
A400M
Globemaster & F35s
Poseidon
Typhoons
Voyager & Typhoons
And of course The Red Arrows
You can watch the flypast on my YouTube channel -
I had some time before my train so I chilled in Green Park.
I made some friends
Post geeking smiles
The next weekend Corney and I went to our first full show of the year, Duxford's Summer Airshow.
They've had a move around in the AirSpace Hanger and the resident Lancaster has it's own space at the moment.
They've recently acquired a Sea Harrier -
Apache
Whilst I was walking along the flight line I saw these Apaches arrive -
The show was opened by the always excellent Team Raven who are now up to a 7 ship formation.
MK14 Spitfire
Duxford had a very special visitor this year the R4D 'Ready 4 Duty' a US Navy variant of the DC3 Dakota.
Another formation team displaying were The Starlings -
Helicopters were the big theme of the day including this Cobra which I'd never seen before.
Duxford was one of the few shows this year to feature the RAF Chinook Role Demo
They'd displayed at RIAT last year but I was too far back to see the entire display. Luckily I had an excellent vantage point in the members area. You can watch the display below -
One of my favourite acts of the day was the newly formed Army Air Corps Attack Helicopter Display Team comprising of a Wildcat and 2 Apaches.
Wildcat & Apache
It was so cool seeing the aircraft in action and seeing quite how intimidating an Apache looks head on!
You can watch the display here -
The show's finale was provided by a thunderous display from the RAF Typhoon now entering from crowd rear!
The team's callsign this year is 'REHEAT' and it certainly lived up to it's name ...
They even shared one of my photos on their Instagram 😍
Despite the wind putting paid to a couple of displays from the RAF Falcons and the BBMF it was a really great start to the 2025 season. Next up ...... RIAT!
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