On Saturday I took my family down to Southend for the annual Air Show. The Southend Air Show is a free event (if you ignore the parking fees) with a varied selection of aircraft on display. Like all of these events the actual line-up is largely weather dependent but this year - with glorious sunshine throughout - there were no cancellations and the show proceeded as planned.
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The Blades Acrobatic Team |
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The Blades Acrobatic Team |
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P-40 Kittyhawk |
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight |
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Spitfire PR Mk XIX PM631 |
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Avro Lancaster |
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Trig Aerobatic Team - Pitts S-1D biplanes |
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Black Cats Helicopter Display Team |
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Breitling Wingwalkers |
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Eurofighter Typhoon |
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Family Shot |
This was a great show made even better by the excellent weather. As usual I shot hundreds of pictures but managed to trim this down to about a hundred which are shown here as a Slideshow.
Looks like a great day out Lee! ;)
ReplyDeleteReally stunning pics there, must have been a fantastic day
ReplyDeleteIan
Great pictures Lee!
ReplyDeleteAwesome day out and excellent pictures.
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Very nice pictures... Looks like an awesome show and a nice day!
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Monty
Excellent pics Lee!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWOW excellent Shots! I used to enjoy going to the Sunderland airshow, when I was back in the UK, brings back fond memories. You must have a bloody good lens on that camera! When I tried shots of such aircraft I get 'dots' in the middle of a blue sky...
ReplyDeleteThe only thing, you have tagged a picture a p51 mustang, but I think that's a p40 Warhawk / Kittyhawk???
Oopskie! Thanks for the heads up...I'll update my labels. I think there must have been a change to the flight list cos I got that from the website.
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