my name is mwd

Laura all helmeted up, watching an aerial display at Duxford from afar. There was a range of big and small planes from around World War Two doing fancy manoeuvres quite low down. It was quite impressive stuff to see so close; the larger planes seemed to be really on the edge at times, moving in ways that made me feel odd watching them, so I’d imagine it’s worse inside. It’s unusual you get to see such heavy flying machines up close (given their intended purpose, certainly that’s a good thing with regards to these specific planes), and there’s a degree of inspiration that they give, which I think you get less of a feel for now that modern planes are just too fast to see (though Laura correctly pointed out that vertical take off/landing is still quite impressive).

Of course, this just makes me wish I had better camera equipment as all I managed to capture was this:

Perhaps next christmas I can get myself a digital SLR :)