Tuesday 29 May 2012

Southend Air Show 2012

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.

The Blades Acrobatic Team
The Blades Acrobatic Team
P-40 Kittyhawk
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Spitfire PR Mk XIX PM631
Avro Lancaster
Trig Aerobatic Team  - Pitts S-1D biplanes
Black Cats Helicopter Display Team

Breitling Wingwalkers
Eurofighter Typhoon
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.

8 comments:

  1. Looks like a great day out Lee! ;)

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  2. Really stunning pics there, must have been a fantastic day

    Ian

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  3. Awesome day out and excellent pictures.
    Cheers

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  4. Very nice pictures... Looks like an awesome show and a nice day!

    Cheers
    Monty

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  5. WOW 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...
    The only thing, you have tagged a picture a p51 mustang, but I think that's a p40 Warhawk / Kittyhawk???

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    1. 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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