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NEWSLETTERI do hope that you had a very special Christmas with family and friends, and that the New year was celebrated in the custom you enjoy. The New year is only two weeks old, and the short getaway that I had seems so far away now. At the end of last year I did a couple of Air to Air photographic assignments which I will share with you on the website. The one I was doing of the Fairchild was cut short due to bad weather but we still managed to get a few pictures before beating a swift retreat back to Stellenbosch Airfield. I was shooting from a Navion which was a treat in itself, a real Cadillac of the skies. The Navion is very good as a photographic platform because of the sliding canopy which can be held open giving a photographer about a 20 centimetre gap to shoot through. I will be re doing the shoot on the Fairchild soon and I am going to persuade the Navion owner that we need to take some pictures of his beautiful aircraft. The film Vulcan returns is now ready and being pressed, it has been a long road and the results are worth the wait. A very special man by the name of Tony Hulls has given me the usage of historical footage that he had taken over the years of the Vulcan and combined with the footage taken at Waddington, Farnborough and Bruntingthorpe this is a comprehensive documentary on the Vulcan. Interviews with the Pilots and engineers and some of the people who did the great work to get her back into the air. Airshow UK I is now ready for pressing and the response to this film has been very favourable. It is made up of my journey to the major air shows and displays during 2008. Waddington, Kemble, Farnborough to mention a few. Number I has as pride of place the Vulcan and that great team that put XH558 back into the sky. The A380, Chinook, the Indian Helicopter aerobatic team the Sarangs, the Red Arrows and that incredible formation landing by the Patrulla Aquila to mention a few.It is one hundred and six minutes long and there are only two pieces of music, one at the beginning and one at the end, the rest is pure air show noise. Airshow Uk II will be completed by the end of February and has a whole chapter on the Raptor display at both Farnborough and at Fairford. My best to you all for the New Year, please forward this on to any of your Aviation friends. Best wishes Andrew and the Black Eagle Team. |
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