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The London, Duxford And Tour De Normandie Part Ducks 2010 Debrief Thread


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Ever organised (lol), here's the Debrief Thread for the various DDz expeditions to London, Flying Legends and Normandy.

Eight hours to go before I'm due to head off to London, so time for some shut-eye - Have a great one guys!

~S~

Jabo

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Mission complete!

I got home at about 20:00 local time.

My debrief In short: Fabulous! Amazing! Brilliant!

It all was!

Have started working on gathering video and images, to try and make something out of it ...

glad u came home in one peace m8 thumbsu.gif

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Here's my first contribution: Three Kestrels at Duxford, a 2'20 Video of what was a highlight of the show to me!

@gec: Thanks m8, it was a bit of a trip, but driving a French car (Citroen Xantia) over the 'Peage' motorways in France @130km/hr, on the Cruise Control is much like flying, the miles and miles kinda fly past... but getting into Belgium (had a big dip just before Antwerp, a cup of black coffee fixed that) at rush hour is no good, and in Holland trying to avoid a traffic jam, taking a bypass route that many others took does not help in making good progress at all! In the end, the rule of '2 hours drive, 15 minutes break' is a very good one!

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that works for me.

I think i should of paid more attention to how i worded my last post though, to 'where can i download the codec needed' rather than getting you to redo the vid, but thanks for that, and the vids real nice :thumbsu:

Just watched your spitfire vid :bow: :bow: :bow:

nice skills :pic:

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Well what a fantasticulatious 10 days that was !!

Started on Wednesday at my M8 Pete's house near Windsor where I got drunk and laughed alot. Stayed overnight then off to Heathrow to pick up JP on Thursday. Pete drove us both to "Shepherds Bush" (got to love the name LOL ) tube station. Short trip to Days hotel then to the IWM to meet up with BG, Pook,(+ wives) Jabo, Jedi and Colin. Got drunk and laughed alot in the evening at the pub.

Off to Duxford on Friday meet up with more most excellent DDz go for a tour of "Romania" (restoration hangers) at Duxford thanks to JP and his incredible schmooze machine.

Did I mention that I sat in a Spitfire :huh: LMAO. It was a RCAF(Kelly) Mk IX with the cerial number "PL344" Pain Less 3 44(Klingers number) Spooky ! Registration number "TL-B" which FT said stood for Tender Lovi'n Brainless LOL

THANK YOU JP !!!

Friday night got drunk and laughed alot at the Red Lion.

Saturday was the airshow itself and yet more excellent DDz showed up. What a show and what great company. I only wish we had had more time so that I could have had a decent chat with each and every DDD (Duxford Danger Dog)cool.gif

Saturday night Rog visits again, this time with his lovely family. Only one thing to do....Get drunk and laugh alot !

Sid, Fruitbat and myself managed to "moon" JP from the flat roof outside our window at about 1am

Sunday morning say good-bye to BG, Helen, Pooka, Joanne, Crash, Fruitbat, Jabo, Jedi, Friar (To be honest I was a little sad to to leave such a great bunch of people).

Drive back to Portsmouth (via Windsor to collect my car) in convoy with FT and Sid's cars. Stayed at my place got drunk and laughed alot.

Monday Jabo arrives and we collect my M8 Tim. Drive to the continental ferry port via the isle of wight ferry port OOOPS ! (because my brain is old and tired unsure.gif )

Had a fantastic time for four days doing the DDz Normandy tour, got drunk and laughed alot ! So many funny things happened I cannot list them so I will let JP/Sid/FT/Jabo do that.blink.gif

Thursday FT drives to Holland and we come back to Blighty in the evening. Nick drives home late that night , Tim goes home and now there are only 3.

Friday morning Tim comes round to my house to give Sid a send off by playing his violin on the driveway ! LOL Now there are only 2.

I drive JP to the airport and say a fond farewell...now there is only 1. I reflect on the drive home to portsmouth.........I wish we all lived alot nearer to each other ........~S~ Good friends !!!

Mick.

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More pics......

post-316-077552300 1279386343_thumb.jpg It was hard work trying to push JP between the rudder pedals ! LOL

post-316-075928000 1279386359_thumb.jpg "Painless lucky boy right...over"

post-316-013671500 1279386388_thumb.jpg "Keep still JP ! One is trying to have one's picture taken"

post-316-015181500 1279386426_thumb.jpg I really love this plane xxxxx

post-316-014353000 1279386438_thumb.jpg This man is one of my heroes because he does alot more than perhaps he gets credit for : )

post-316-008836800 1279386458_thumb.jpg This man is officially under the wing ,so to speak, of Mr Jason Perk.

post-316-094384700 1279386469_thumb.jpg Sexier than Colins hat !

post-316-011393900 1279386480_thumb.jpg Boooooo !

post-316-060216300 1279386492_thumb.jpg Hurray !!

post-316-085350800 1279386504_thumb.jpg Hurray !!

post-316-089207600 1279386520_thumb.jpg Hurray !!

post-316-087551800 1279386537_thumb.jpg Hurray !!

post-316-041407600 1279386555_thumb.jpg "Did I tell you about when I used to work as a 1970s porn star ? "

post-316-066559300 1279386573_thumb.jpg "There was this one time when I was behind this babe with a perfect bum ......"

post-316-024768300 1279386590_thumb.jpg www. (wicked wing jig)

post-316-033155800 1279386608_thumb.jpg look at the rivets on that !

post-316-034343300 1279386625_thumb.jpg This aircraft seems to have something stuck to the starboard wing !! LOL

post-316-036756000 1279386664_thumb.jpg Mr Eric "winkle" Brown no less !!

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post-316-094502700 1279386730_thumb.jpg Due to government cuts to help pay for the Olympics this will be the BoBMF from 2012

post-316-039214300 1279386780_thumb.jpg DDz war faces ? LOL

post-316-087719700 1279386798_thumb.jpg JP to Colin........ "Have you pissed in my pint !?"

post-316-002142500 1279386819_thumb.jpg Hellauxxxxx

post-316-069437200 1279386837_thumb.jpg JP...... "where is my friggin KY !? Jabo.....is this it ?

post-316-099443400 1279386864_thumb.jpg A Jabo serious moment.

post-316-099912700 1279386882_thumb.jpg Sid and Tim holding their own ! LOL

post-316-001401900 1279386903_thumb.jpg Point du Hock...Note that the flag in the background is mainly white : )

post-316-001952700 1279386923_thumb.jpg "Tim" honourary NDD (Normandy Danger Dog) and squad musician.

post-316-081282700 1279386940_thumb.jpg It was completely black in here without the flash

post-316-093562000 1279386961_thumb.jpg Achtung I am Austrian not Cherman !!

post-316-055623300 1279386984_thumb.jpg More bunker.

post-316-063374100 1279387022_thumb.jpg JP got quite sentimental at times !! LOL

post-316-044868900 1279387045_thumb.jpg Don't get captured if you crew one of these !

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post-316-003412300 1279387105_thumb.jpg The famous Pegasus Bridge cafe

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Phew ! Hope you enjoy.

~S~ Painless

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Great pics Painless.The group shot with the guys standing by the spit is my new desktop.

It's great to see all the pics and read all the posts from you guys....it kinda makes me feel like I was there.

btw,the DDz shirts look great.

B.

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Well, finally I have internet back at home - it's been off since Friday!

A big ~s~ to all the DDz who made this year's Duxford jolly such a fantastic event (and London and Normandy!!!)

A special thanks to Jim for lending me his monster camera lens, and I apologise in advance for the 600 pics I have to upload lol.

Fab pics and videos uploaded already - brings it all back!!!

~S~ chaps

Jabo

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