I was intending to take "Jessie" to
Breighton, but this is the first time I've had to cancel due to good weather!
Yes, that's right, cancelled due to good weather!! About a week before the
event, an email came around advising there would be no cooking allowed on site
due to the extremely dry weather creating a fire risk on the airfield. Not
being able to stay on site created complications in taking the Jeep, without
clocking up un-necessary mileage, so in the end we decided to leave the Jeep
at home. We'd go in the normal car on Saturday morning, stay at my dad's house
only 35 minutes away, and go back on Sunday.
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While I didn't have the Jeep, I did take some aviation pictures to sell, and
they were set up in hangar 2. For the last few months, there has been a photo
competition, for any picture taken at Breighton. All the entries were in the
conservatory on Saturday, with the winner being announced at the Saturday
evening hangar party. It turns out that I was the winner! Some of the entries,
my trophy and winning picture are shown below. On Sunday, they were all moved
to hangar 2 for display.
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While I didn't have my Jeep there, there were four Jeeps that turned up along
with the classic cars on display.
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The Real Aeroplane Company has an impressive collection of aircraft, but they
were also joined by many visitors, flying both modern and vintage aircraft. In
fact, there were so many aircraft on the flight line, that they ended up
double parked at the West end of the airfield, with others still in the
hangars! The largest visitor was the twin engined Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor,
seen in the second picture below.
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Here's a few more of the vehicles on show, including Taff's race car which
performed a number of high speed runs along the taxiway. Another nice twin
that flew in was a Miles Gemini, joining the resident Miles Messenger and
Magister.
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Here's the Gemini again, then Piper Vagabond, Piper Apache and a fairly new
resident to Breighton, a de Havilland dH60 Gipsy Moth. It was interesting to
watch the folded wings being opened out to prepare the aircraft for
flight.
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Despite a partly cloudy day, it had been very warm, and the sun broke through
in time for the evening hangar party. While we didn't have the usual
spectacular sun set, there were still some interesting cloud formations and
lighting. The hangar party had a live band as well as Brian doing some stand
up comedy and my daughter danced the night away for almost four and a half
hours straight!
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Day two was unbearably hot, and other than a couple of trips along the flight
line for pictures, I spent most of the day in hangar 2 where there was some
solid shade. There were several Austers that flew in to the event and with
those resident at the airfield, they numbered around eight. The good weather
allowed plenty of flying on both days. Not having a tent or Jeep, we were able
to make a quick getaway at 5pm. There's a classic car meet there in September,
so I may take the Jeep down for that instead.
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