I’m aiming to get 30 people to sign up to the tributes side of Happy Warriors. I’m close to the halfway point now and have a nice little collection which will include tributes to:

Robert Saffir 448th BG
John Yatsko 448th BG
Richard Walsh 448th BG
Eugene Pulcipher 448th BG
Joseph Marganski 448th BG
Edward Torossian 446th BG
Harold Dahlberg 494th BG
Leland Walzel 93rd BG
Warren Irvin Knox 452nd BG
Robert Rakos 313th Ftr Sqdn
Richard L. Lapham 55th Ftr Grp
Leroy Borden 449th BG

There are some amazing stories in the list above and I’m learning new stuff all the time. It’s been great to make contact with everyone that has expressed an interest in taking part, from Manhattan to Alaska would you believe. Twitter has definitely helped.

I’m on the lookout for any information or contacts for a B-29 veteran as I am yet to pay tribute to any crew of the Superfortress.

This Sunday is the 10th Seething Air Show and Family Day and I have my camera borrowed and ready to go. I’ll be trying to capture the spirit of the day i suppose; plenty of actuality to show how the control tower and its surrounds still have a lot to give so many years after the end of hostilities.

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.