Tangmere Fury Flies Again

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Tangmere Fury Flies Again

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I thought you might enjoy some photos of this morning's second post-restoration flight of Hawker Fury K5674 from Goodwood.

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Enjoying the sunshine at Goodwood

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Sir Fred Rosier's son David in front of his father's aeroplane.

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The 'office'.

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David Rosier hands his father's log book to Charlie Brown to be carried on the flight. (A nice touch this!)

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Getting ready to start.

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Strapping in.

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Final checks.

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Ready to go.

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Airborne!

I've also got a reasonable video of the engine start which I'll try and upload to YouTube and post a link here. I did also video the take-off but with rather disappointing results so I probably won't put that up.

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Lovely pictures of a beautiful aeroplane.Thaks for posting them Pete :thumbsup: EricT
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Cheers Pete :thumbsup: The 'office' looks surprisingly 'busy' for an aircraft of this age :-O

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Nice set of pictures Pete, thanks for sharing :thumbsup:
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OK, here's the promised video of the start and taxi. Don't forget to turn the sound up! :tunes:

http://youtu.be/dB6W4zquKXg

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Cheers Pete. Damned shame the takeoff and flight vid wasn't to your liking. I really wanted to see it after watching it taxi.

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Lovely Pete :)

Thanks very much :thumbsup:

Do you think you could post the take off :hide:

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Well since you put it like that... :)

The problem was entirely of my own making - what sort of idiot uses new and untried equipment for something important? :doh: Operating near maximum zoom, the slightest movement of the lens is magnified many times and when you add panning for the actual take-off run, you get the problems you see on the film. I did zoom out a little to try to mitigate this effect but clearly not enough. I'm off to practice with the camera!

Here's the link to the take-off: http://youtu.be/4U-xjQuq1O8

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what sort of idiot uses new and untried equipment for something important?
Me! :lol: I bought a Canon Digicam (dvd) recorder to film a Vanguard engine run from the inside without having tried it. One lot of vid is as I wanted and the second is sorta widescreen. I've no idea what I did but I wasn't best pleased :|

Tks for posting it mate. Charlie made it look so easy :rock:

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Cheers Pete :thumbsup:

Not that bad at all...a good record :rock:
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