Seething Charity Air Day

Saturday 5th September marked this years Charity Air Day at the control tower museum and the site of the old airfield.

Drizzle and mud might have been more authentic but happily the weather smiled on us offering sun and no rain with good conditions for the flyers. The highlight was the Battle of Britain memorial flight as a British Lancaster bomber and Hurricane made a couple of passes over us.

I was hoping to get some good photos to post here but experienced a hideous camera jam and soon realised I hadn’t loaded the 35mm film properly, curses!  It then dawned on me that i was surrounded by hundreds of people with better equipment than mine so I’m going to track a few people down and see if they will allow us to use their photographs. I also took a hand held sound recorder with me, the idea being to sample some of the sounds of the day and then match them up with photos. When I got home and had a listen to my recordings they suffer from a bit of wind noise that could have been avoided with a better mic.

I did at least get a recording of the destinctive sound of the Lancaster and Hurricane fly past albeit with the sound of me winding on my compact camera.

Listen to the recording here.

I have added some of the better photos to the stills page.

Tagged as:  Family Day · Production