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10th July 2016 - General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon 'FA-123' of the Belgian Air Component about to get airborne with the smokewinders kicking out plumes..
Indeed it is a Tiger Moth doing a flying display especially for the eleven of us on a photo workshop at Old Warden Airfield home of the Shuttleworth Collection . We had a grandstand view to get our shots of the Tiger Moth doing it's thing - in fact we were a good few metres into the airfield on the air-side side of the fence !! I had a good few keeper shots but there were at least as many if not more deletes - the art of panning still eludes me !!
The aircraft was originally T6818 in RAF service and was built by Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford in 1944. Little is known of its wartime service but after the war it was registered as G-ANKT.
It was acquired by the Collection in 1966 and was rebuilt by two former engineering apprentices at Old Warden, using many components from two other Tiger Moths.
It has been completely overhauled and re-covered and is finished in the colours of the Royal Air Force Central Flying School Aerobatic Team, showing K2585.
More from the RAF Red Arrows Aerobatic Team at Dawlish Carnival Airshow, Devon, England.
See my other Red Arrows photos.
The Belgian air force F-16 demo team using flares during an amazing display at Duxford a few years ago