Shuttleworth Family Airshow, Old Warden, UK on Sunday

[Ianm]

Just for fun here's some shots from the Shuttleworth Collection Family Airshow on Sunday. Featured many of the familiar collection aircraft plus wingwalkers. As per the weather here in the UK currently it was excessively sunny, hot and dry.

All images were shot with an Olympus OMD EM1 Mkii with either M.Zuiko 12-40 f2.8 or 40-150mm f2.8 lens plus MC-20. Images were processed in DxO PhotoLab 5 and are uncropped.

Apologies in advance that this post doesn't feature the OM1 nor BIF!


Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc


Westland Lysander Mk IIIa


Bristol F.2b Fighter


AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers


AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers


AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers


Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc


Westland Lysander Mk IIIa


Miles Hawk Speed Six


Percival Mew Gull


de Havilland Comet

 

[Tyrbiter]

The passenger windows were square and failed at the corners, causing sudden and catastrophic failure of the airframe during flight. When they rounded off the corners the problem disappeared.

Not quite that simple, it was down to a combination of poor finishing of rivet holes that were put in when the production team told R. E. Bishop the designer that they simply couldn't use Redux metal glue that had been envisaged on the window stiffening internally and using very light gauge skins because of the low thrust of the available engines in the Comet 1 variant.

Initial Comet skin failures started at ADF windows in the crown of the fuselage.

Thanks for the additional information.

they were doing Taxi runs at Bruntingthorpe with a Comet from Boscombe Down, no idea if they are still doing engine runs and so forth with it, same colour scheme as the flying one Skeeterbytes posted, might even be the same aircraft

Sorry, more nostalgia ...

Long long ago, I worked on Comet IVs at RAF Lyneham, Wilts.

nice one, lovely looking aircraft with a troubled history

Once the Comet 2, 3 and 4 came along it was a perfectly fine aeroplane, higher thrust Avon engines and improvements all round in the newer versions.

The only thing that would be problematic was the lack of leading edge devices, but that too was improved with changes in the wing profile later on. Comet 1s could be stalled on the runway during the takeoff run by over-rotation.