Hawker Hurricane Returns to Carlisle - Warbirds

**cessna152towser** · 25th July 09, 04:32 PM

Several air shows taking place in northern England and central Scotland, Carlisle airport was busy all day Saturday with various old warbirds calling in for fuel and servicing while on the display circuit. Here the Spitfire and Hurricane perform a low flypast. This will be particularly poignant for Riverkilt whose father flew Hawker Hurricanes from this airfield during World War 2.

Spitfire makes a three point landing.

Tin Triangles. Avro Vulcan heavy bomber XH558 pays a brief flying visit to XJ823 which donated parts to get XH558 flying again.

Spitfire Taxi-ing

Hurricane taxi-ing

Spitfire in flight.

Hurricane in flight.

Douglas DC-3 Dakota, with personnel about to board for departure.

Jet Provost trainer about to set off to perform a display.

Soviet intruder. One of many former soviet Russian YAK-50 military trainer planes which were sold to western Europe for use as sport planes.

**KFCarter** · 25th July 09, 04:35 PM

I would have loved to see that in person...Thanks for those pics!!

**Chas** · 25th July 09, 04:36 PM

Alex - Excellent photos - as usual! You really are lucky to be able to get to Carlisle so often.

Regards

Chas

**SFCRick** · 25th July 09, 05:08 PM

Fantastic pics

**sydnie7** · 25th July 09, 07:56 PM

Great shots, Alex, that Spitfire shows where some of the classic British sports cars got their design inspiration! (Too bad the namesake vehicle was less than spectacular, I owned an early one, but some of the Spits in vintage racing today are taking back their good name)

**pdcorlis** · 25th July 09, 10:06 PM

What a great day at the airfield Alex - thanks for the photos!

**Arizona Scot** · 25th July 09, 10:25 PM

Wow great pics Alex like always thanks for sharing.

**Riverkilt** · 25th July 09, 11:43 PM

What lovely and thoughtful photos. Thanks Alex!! Yes my father flew them, he also "pranged" a Hurri...and a P-39 in Algeria...and was shot down and had to blow another P-39 at Kassarine Pass....sorta makes him half a German Ace....

Would you believe a coworker just threw away one of those huge War 2 aircraft calendars from last year. One of the pics was a Hawker Hurricane so grabbed it and posted the pic in my home office.

Amazing times those. Much gratitude for the men and women who keep those birds in the air.

Ron