Our last week in the UK and viewing the favourable weather forecast I thought I’d take a two and a half hour drive down to Old Warden, home of the Shuttleworth Collection, a fabulous grass airfield in a beautiful country setting.
At last, as the GPS was counting down the last hundred meters to destination, through a break in the typical English hedge, I saw a splash of red fully revealed in the next few seconds to be the absolutely glorious sight of the DH Comet “Grosvenor House”, I almost drove off the narrow road craning around to see a Lysander and Gladiator.. I had to drive another couple of miles to enter the airfield from the other side before I could get amongst these glorious classics.
Fumbling with barely supressed excitement I wrested my cameras from my backpack and started snapping away (another 2000 plus pics to sort out!) My first case of mega goosebumps were aroused by a flyover by “Jumping Jacques” the P-51, I little bit later by the Dragon Rapide, then the Comet, oh my she is glorious..and the Gladiator.. and the Sea Hurricane! I was like a one eyed dog in a meat market..
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