title	Flying in a Dragon Rapide, IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire - 17th August 2024
intro	Fred's really keen to visit IWM Duxford, so that's what we do, or rather that's what Fred and Nosher do as Isobel's got Jules visiting, and Harry can't be arsed. After we've been looking at aircraft for a while, we hear an announcement about flights on the de Havilland Dragon Rapide - a small passenger aircraft from the 1930s - and discover that they're actually relatively cheap. So with much excitement, we spend about 15 minutes flying around over the fields of Cambridgeshire in a plane that's pushing 90 years old. There's also a lot of other flying activity going on, with the usual two-seater Spitfire trips and plenty of Tiger Moths buzzing around, and there's a special bonus as Fred spots that one of our favourite planes - P-51D Mustang "Marinell" - is at the end of the Working Aircraft hangar, where it seems to have found a new home.
imgp5605	The B-17 Sally B/Memphis Belle is parked up
imgp5610	There's a solitary Victor bomber in a hangar
imgp5616	A giant Rolls-Royce Trent aero engine
imgp5621	Fred looks at the payload of a Lancaster
imgp5626	The exhaust ducts of a pair of Olympus engines
imgp5633	Fred looks around on Condorde 001
imgp5640	Concorde's flight deck
imgp5647	Another older flight deck
imgp5648	Fred looks at model aircraft
imgp5651	We have a look at a Panavia Tornado
imgp5653	A helicopter and an English Electric Lightning
imgp5656	Fred roams around on a Comet 4
imgp5661	The chaotic flightdeck of a Comet 4
imgp5665	A Comet 4's engine intakes
imgp5669	Fred gets a photo of one of the Black Buck Vulcans
imgp5671	Black Buck pilot Martin Withers in listed
imgp5676	The cabin of an Avro York - a civilian Lancaster
imgp5678	Crowds mill around under Concorde
imgp5681	The legendary Mosquito - the Wooden Wonder
imgp5684	A tiny Miles Magister trainer
imgp5694	The two-seater Spitfire heads off on a sortie
imgp5698	The iconic silhouette of a passing Spitfire
imgp5702	Another Spitfire in USAAF markings
imgp5705	A taxiing Spitfire
imgp5721	A Bristol Blenheim is readied for flight
imgp5729	The DeHavilland Dragon Rapide "Nettie"
imgp5740	We check out the working-aircraft-in-repair hangar
imgp5741	A stripped-back Hawker Tempest
imgp5744	Fred spots old friend Marinell in the hangar
imgp5745	Fred tries to get a photo of Marinell
imgp5749	Marinell through the safety glass
imgp5752	Duxford's control tower
imgp5754	The latest Spitfire passenger gets a photo
imgp5757	The Spitfire is refuelled
imgp5758	The Spitfire pilot updates his logbook
imgp5760	A Britten-Norman Trislander
imgp5773	The nose of the mighty B-52 bomber
imgp5774	We stop for a snack and a drink in the café
imgp5777	Fred checks the headroom with a B-52's belly
imgp5780	We look at a mock up of a V-1 bomb and its launcher
imgp5781	An original pre-fabricated bungalow
imgp5784	Fred does thumbs up under a 9½" gun
imgp5785	The giant Bristol Brittania
imgp5786	A Gloster Meteor
imgp5795	The pilot and crew hang around
imgp5798	The Mk. IX Spitfire 9G-Q/MJ627
imgp5810	Fred scopes out our "ride"
imgp5812	The Dragon Rapide G-AKIF at Duxford
imgp5816	The pilot checks that we're all strapped in
imgp5830	A single-seater deHavilland Vampire
imgp5840	The wheatfields of Cambridgeshire
imgp5841	Fred takes photos out of the window
imgp5850	A view of Duxford airfield
imgp5856	Cambridge and the M11
imgp5861	Addenbrooke's ever-expanding hospital site
imgp5873	The outdoor collection of British airliners
imgp5880	Cambridge fields through the wings of a biplane
imgp5910	A rear view of the Dragon Rapide
imgp5914	There's a nice lineup of warbirds on the grass
imgp5916	The Shackleton is being restored in a hangar
imgp5917	A Rolls-Royce Griffon and contra-rotating props
imgp5921	An original WWII hangar
imgp5923	A wall of various aircraft engines
imgp5930	Fred under the Shackleton's tailplane
imgp5933	A biplane is worked on
imgp5934	A Hurricane called "Soph"
imgp5937	More Spitfires in an original WWII hangar
imgp5938	The British Antarctic Survey's Twin Otter
imgp5941	The other side of Sally-B