Inside Sally B

While it’s so cold outside I thought I’d look back to a hot summer’s day when we visited Duxford. Kevin’s been a member of the Sally B Supporters’ Club for over thirty years now and one of the perks of this is being able to take a tour inside Sally B, the last airworthy B17 in Europe.

The last time we did this was one winter when she was still inside the hangar, so it was lovely to see her in the sunshine this time.

I’d taken my little Fuji camera with me (handy to have a small camera in the tight confines of an aircraft) and focused on capturing some of the details I saw around us.

Photos taken 7 August 2022

Up, up and away!

We both celebrated our 50th birthdays during the restrictions of 2021 so the adventure we had planned to mark the occasion was fashionably late, in May 2022. We headed off to the Old Warden airfield in Bedfordshire for a flight in ‘Wacky Wabbit’, a WWII Harvard aircraft.

We weren’t allowed to take anything in the aircraft with us, but that wasn’t going to stop me catching some photos as Kevin went on his flight.

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Coming back in to land…

Our day also coincided with one of the regular Shuttleworth Collection air shows, so naturally we stayed on to watch and catch some photos!

Photos taken 1 May 2022

Duxford on film

Back in August I spent some time using my diminutive Rollei 35S film camera, getting to know it better. It’s a tiny camera, with an amazingly sharp 40mm lens so it’s great to keep in your pocket for impromptu photo outings.

Work in progress in the restoration hangar

Light levels tend to be quite low in the old hangars at Duxford, but the Rollei coped with this easily and I enjoyed finding compositions which suited its lens.

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Photos taken August 2022