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Title: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Jimbob on 30 August 2015, 08:47:19
Wandered over to Rhyl (Shudder) Air show yesterday as the Vulcan was due over.
That may have drawn me this year, but we will be back.

Free display over the beach / sea so everything is very close, also spread out viewing.  Worked really well.

Some cracking aerobatic displays, all in all a very enjoyable afternoon.

And now a few photos....

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Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 30 August 2015, 08:53:37
Cracking pics! :D
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Jimbob on 30 August 2015, 08:55:49
Cracking pics! :D

Cheers...they may be the last from the camera unfortunately, I lost Autofocus towards the end so had to go manual, need to work out whats wrong today be it lens or camera
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: biggriffin on 30 August 2015, 08:56:59
Good pieces, who's the random old bloke with the stick?
 Is that jimbob, or a new younger OOF'er  :D 😀
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: omegod on 30 August 2015, 09:45:01
Hoping to catch the Vulc at southport in a couple of weeks :y
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Varche on 30 August 2015, 10:43:07
Excellent :y
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: zirk on 30 August 2015, 10:47:26
Nice shots there Jim, nice to see the Vulcan still flying, brings back memories of when I was a kid at school, and they used to come thundering over practicing there low fly skills for real, normally 2 or 3 of them in formation together with some Fighter Escorts.  :y

Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Kevin Wood on 30 August 2015, 10:48:14
Saw XH558 flying West up the coast from the Cobb at Lyme yesterday and wondered where she was off to. :y
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: BazaJT on 30 August 2015, 11:52:42
Smashing photos,Vulcan as stunning as ever.Dc3/Dakota/C47 a sturdy old workhorse and still in use in some parts of the world I believe[?]My absolute favourite out of those though has to be the old Stringbag,old fashioned hopelessly outdated,slow but what damage they still inflicted!brave,brave men the crews of those :y
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 30 August 2015, 12:00:43
Saw XH558 flying West up the coast from the Cobb at Lyme yesterday and wondered where she was off to. :y

Damn missed that!  ::)  Was it just passing by?  :-\
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Tony H on 30 August 2015, 14:31:30
Great pics jimbob just saw the Dakota fly by about an hour ago. wondered what had been going on Rhyl is only about 20 miles away as the crow flys
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: vauxsull on 30 August 2015, 14:36:16
The red arrow have just flown over my place of work James....
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Jimbob on 30 August 2015, 15:19:23
The red arrow have just flown over my place of work James....

We were watching them in the lanes by the runway ;)
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: Kevin Wood on 30 August 2015, 17:27:23
Saw XH558 flying West up the coast from the Cobb at Lyme yesterday and wondered where she was off to. :y

Damn missed that!  ::)  Was it just passing by?  :-\

Yes.. Must have been at at least 3,000 ft, just cruising past quietly.
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: 05omegav6 on 30 August 2015, 19:13:59
Saw XH558 flying West up the coast from the Cobb at Lyme yesterday and wondered where she was off to. :y

Damn missed that!  ::)  Was it just passing by?  :-\

Yes.. Must have been at at least 3,000 ft, just cruising past quietly.
A Vulcan doing anything quietly just doesn't sound right... :-\
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: PhilRich on 30 August 2015, 22:28:02
You've missed your Vocation Jimbob, those photographs are nothing if not Professional Quality!
Very well done indeed, and thank you very much!:y
Title: Re: Rhyl Air Show
Post by: henryd on 31 August 2015, 17:33:46
Smashing photos,Vulcan as stunning as ever.Dc3/Dakota/C47 a sturdy old workhorse and still in use in some parts of the world I believe[?]My absolute favourite out of those though has to be the old Stringbag,old fashioned hopelessly outdated,slow but what damage they still inflicted!brave,brave men the crews of those :y

My uncle flew in a stringbag,he was shot down twice and two of the carriers he was flying off were sunk too,God knows how he made it through the war,he only started to talk about it just before he died