Historic Me109 Up For Sale

Platinum Fighter Sales listed a very special Messerschmitt Me109 this week.

Adolf Galland during the 1940 Battle of Britain

This Hispano model of the famous German fighter is the last 109 from the Battle of Britain movie collection of Connie Edwards to be sold off, and what makes this 109 extra special is that former German fighter ace and commander Adolf Galland flew this 109 while consulting during the movie's filming.

Adolf Gallnd with RAF ace Robert Stanford Tuck and BOB film actors

Ex BoB movie 109's at Connie Edwards Hangar in Texas

Gerald Martin, Lefty Gardner, Connie Edwards & Lloyd Nolan during the BoB filming

Flying Legends Duxford - Viewing Pt 4.

Viewing  - Part 4 of 4 - The question most of us have at any big airshow is where to sit, airfields are big spaces and finding a good spot is hit and miss and you've spent a lot of cash to get here, maybe paid extra to sit in one of the special enclosures and you end up with this....

can't see a darn thing when every one stands up.

We were fortunate that we had been to the Duxford airfield from Tuesday to Friday and had a pretty good lay of the land. For Saturday's Flying Legends Air Show we sat in the Friends of The Fighter Collection or the Friends of Duxford enclosures, more on the enclosures later. On the way back from Saturday's show, we decided that we would go directly to get a spot on the fence line, which we did and a nice couple, Frances and George volunteered to look after our chairs so we could check out the vendors.  The photo below shows our great viewing spot, and the X on the map shows where we sat on Sunday.

George and Frances at Duxford Flying Legends

We saw that a lot of people had loosely tied their chairs to the fence to "reserve" their spot however with Frances & George's offer to look after our chairs we did not have to tie our chairs but we would have. As you can see from the photos it was a very good spot.

There is also one area that is quite popular with the photo guys, it's called the "berm" or the "Tank Bank", marked as berm on the earlier map. Pre-airshow days this spot is virtually empty - Dan is all by his lonesome, on airshow days the berm or tank bank is packed with fans with camers, the sound of automatic camera shutters drown out the Merlins.

Dan at the berm - tank bank Duford

Oshkosh Airventure - Camping Guide

Oshkosh Airventure - just go, camp at the airport if you can, it's the best. In 2007 I put together these short guides, hope they help. I'll have more posts on Oshkosh later on.

KPK Guide to Camping at Airventure Oshkosh
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KPK Guide to Oshkosh Airventure

 

Flying Legends Air Show - just GO!

Everyone remembers their first time, as I write this post it's all I can think off. The past three posts were on getting to Duxford and the Flying Legends Airshow so if you are hedging about going to Flying Legends - JUST DO IT. 

Do a  google Flying Legends search and you will get a 100 posts saying how wonderful Flying Legends is, it's all true and more, so let's talk about on our 1st time at Flying Legends 2015.