Duxford: caretakers of vintage aeroplane history

"One of the most important lessons I would impress upon anyone who flies historic aeroplanes now or in future is that you must have the humility to share your privilege with the public. If you have an arrogance about you, you aren’t doing justice to these aeroplanes and the history. We’re merely caretakers."
- Air Marshal (Retd) Cliff Spink (excerpt from The Vintage Aviation Echo).
P-51D Mustang 'The Shark' G-SHWN
Owned by Shaun Patrick
Operated by Norwegian Spitfire Foundation
www.norwegianspitfire.com/
Maintained by Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford
www.aircraftrestorationcompan...
Book a flight through Aerial Collective:
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Produced by
Knut Åshammer
Music by
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Two Steps From Hell
The Squadronaires
Radio
Eirik Østensjø

[@adrianabbott4623]

Beautiful aircraft, just one missing - the fabulous Mosquito.

[@waynester71]

Excellent, excellent.. Love visiting Duxford. I recently sat in the cockpits of Mk1 Spit N3200 & Hurricane BE505. Looking forward to the summer air shows

[@user-xn7jv8lm6z]

Beautifully done.A Mosquito would have been nice to see.Especially good was the music from the 1940's.

[@michaelwalsh1078]

Thank you....

[@neilcotten2816]

Great job knut, what a day being in there with all those aircraft.

[@NorwegianSpitfireFoundation]

Cheers, Neil! What a day! What a week! Knut

[@olsonspeed]

Thanks for the video, I appreciate how challenging it is to smoothly frame and track aircraft especially formations. Week done.

[@paulsoper7304]

Thanks for this video - brilliant!

[@christophercummings1435]

love the purr of those Merlin engines

[@hadial-saadoon2114]

A wonderful video. I've only been to Duxford once, an agonizingly short visit in 1998. I saw the Blenheim under restoration then. I hope to see this airshow some day.

[@mikenelson8786]

Loved the close ups.

[@edstoro3883]

Flott!! Quote by Air Marshal Spink...perfect and so true. Ha det. (fra Halden, verdens centrum)

[@t1fou]

Merci, excellente vidéo!

[@PaddyPatrone]

Great footage, but don't break the main rule. Never put music over engine sound. Walkarounds, ok, but not a running warbird engine ;)

[@NorwegianSpitfireFoundation]

Thank you! It was a great week as always with Legends! I work to create a fine balance of mood, music and engines. As in this film, I always keep half of the airborne footage with engine sound only. Most of the airborne footage of the ARCo formation was engines only. The other half is music fitting the tempo and lowered in volume for every pass. Some rules of continuity, audio mixing and lighting are important, other rules only limit our creativity. Kind regards, Knut Åshammer

[@ConvairDart106]

@@NorwegianSpitfireFoundation He is right you know!

[@junkyarddog9799]

P-51 taking attack formation on the Bf-109..classic!

[@briancritchley5295]

I thought the same, the bf-109 was a fine plane but not when a P-51 was in that position..

[@brianwillson9567]

What would mr Mitchell have thought: so many spitfires flying, over 80 years from the prototype’s first flight.

[@coolcol06]

excellent!

[@NorwegianSpitfireFoundation]

Thank you very much! Kind regards, Knut

[@dwightbetten5280]

I wish I could give it one hundred thumbs up! That's fair don't ya think?

[@Congutalgunit]

In what does the silver SM845 differ to the rest of the spitfires? It seems to have much longer nose with the cockpit further back. Just curious. Thanks!

[@stephenwilliams926]

Nice vid. Could you do a version without the music because it spoils the great visuals.

[@benters3509]

I miss Duxford so much. I don't think the music was annoying. It was very low when it needed to be.

[@JohnyG29]

Ikr, I guess some people have to complain about something. It makes them feel big I suppose...

[@ConvairDart106]

Us Warbird and pilot fanatics, prefer the RAW sound. Especially, when Radials and Merlins are close overhead! No added music or sound effects please!!??

[@marimalt1]

... the music is too loud ... the roar of the engines is not appreciated ... too bad

[@richardstevens2306]

I’m sure it’s a superb video. Only got a couple of minutes in. However you go to all the trouble of excellent filming & put a music soundtrack over the soundtrack we want to hear. The engines ! 🤦‍♂️

[@frankirvine316]

Fantastic doesn’t get any better than that for sure✅👍,take care with the Covid 19 🦠 lurking about😩

[@danstahn2731]

Somethings wrong with the 109, I think it’s the wrong engine.

[@brianwillson9567]

Spanish built airframe with a MERLIN.

[@sly2392]

a p-51 with the nose art of a p-40 avg flying tigers. HMM.

[@andrewwaller5913]

Actually 112 Sqn RAF which flew Mustangs after the P-40 which also had sharks teeth. AVG Flying Tigers were early P-40s with different designs of sharks teeth.

[@JohnyG29]

Its wasn't just the AVG who used sharks teeth nose art.