As this this series of season high points comes to a close, is a look at the debut season of the Hurricane Heritage fleet being displayed by their owner, James Brown. The Hurricane Heritage brand is now a familiar name in the historic aviation scene, having been the operator of Hurricane Mk I R4118 since … Continue reading Airshow Moments 2021 Number 9 – Hurricane Heritage Debuts
A long held high point in any airshow for me, the few airworthy Miles Gemini in the UK have made relatively few appearances over the years. Thankfully that has now changed with this wonderful example putting on a number of appearances at Old Warden, Little Gransden and East Kirkby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127965535@N04/51743866842/in/dateposted/ Owner Stu Blanchard puts on … Continue reading Airshow Moments 2021 Number 5 – Miles Gemini
Following on from a disappointing (especially given the incredible summer we had) washout in 2018, it was great to see Little Gransden return with arguably the events best ever line up. There were some great warbird highlights without question, many of which have been covered on this site as part of other highlight posts/features so I … Continue reading Airshow Moments 2019 2 – North American Training Duo Little Gransden/Duxford
It is not often that I am so moved by an airshow as to put together my report within 24 hours of the event itself. However, combined with a bank holiday Monday straight after and an astounding flying line up, this years Little Gransden show is worthy of just that! https://www.flickr.com/photos/127965535@N04/48622601058/in/dateposted/ After a number of … Continue reading Little Gransden Airshow 2019
The Avro Anson first took to the skies in March 1935, following a new specification issued by the Air Ministry for a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Avro were already working on an airliner design project which fitted the requirements well. The Anson (or Avro652a as it was then known) successfully outperformed the DH89 in trials and … Continue reading In Profile: Avro Anson/Avro XIX
As one final post for this year I wanted to take a quick look back at my personal top 5 shows of 2017. It has been another excellent year overall with plenty of variety, though once again Duxford and The Shuttleworth Collection feature highly on this list. 5. Shuttleworth Collection Military Pageant As is a … Continue reading Warbird Tails Airshow Top 5 2017
Continuing the Blenheim theme after the exciting update from Hawkinge yesterday, it is time for another airshow moment. Today's moment takes a look back at John Romain's masterclass in display flying in the wonderful Bristol Blenheim I at Little Gransden back in August. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127965535@N04/36827611246/in/dateposted-public/ This combination of man and machine is well known as a … Continue reading Airshow Moments 2017 – Blenheim at Little Gransden
After returning to this classic little show for the first time in many years in 2016, the 2017 instalment had been highly anticipated. Rightly so as the event certainly delivered one of the most varied afternoon's flying of the airshow season. It also made a pleasant change having seemingly spent most previous visits ducking in … Continue reading Airshow Review – Little Gransden 27th August 2017
Unusually for August, traditionally one of the busiest airshow months of the year, I only managed to attend two shows. Both were great events at Old Warden and Little Gransden respectively. I know you all enjoy seeing photographs from these shows so while I'm putting together the main review I thought I'd start posting a … Continue reading August Airshow Photo Re-Cap
Considering how difficult 2016 look set to be back in April this year, with uncertainty in relation to the CAA's new display line distances and increased fees for event organisers. Thankfully after a rocky start in the first couple of shows of the season things started to become more familiar and before long there were … Continue reading Warbird Tails Top 5 Airshows 2016
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