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Goodwood revival 2010 air displays and photo gallery

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Thursday, 16th, Sep, 2010

Well the festival is upon us and I shall be in attendance on saturday.

For those wishing to take advantage of the air display from local fields or near by roads the times i have so far are
Friday 17th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) 11:05 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 13.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 15:35 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 18:45 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang)
Saturday 18th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) / 13:15 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 14:45 Battle of Britain Memorial Flight / 16.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 19:00 13.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane)
Sunday 19th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) 11:20 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 13.35 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 15:30 Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

All Times And Aircraft as per the official programme on the iPhone app for the event.

For a good view of aircraft landing you need to be near here, best to be inside the field
Location

For take off, here by the gate
Location

For general outside the venue viewing, anywhere in this picture
Location

I have been unable to find out which planes are flying but judging by todays practice flights, there will be spitfires, and mustangs and the harvard among others, rumors are rife on the internet that lord march was the mysterious donor to the Vulcan to the skies project and that it will be making an unannouced flight though it is not listed on the vulcan website and the red arrows are listed as being in Newcastle.

As per the festival of speed, i shall be putting a few teaser pics up before i do a gallery, with the camera fixed hopefully the pictures should be a lot better then the festival ones!

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia

    • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Vickers Vimy Goodwood Revival ~ Last Flight

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 26th, Sep, 2009

    The Vickers vimy, a British heavy bomber developed during the First World War, the Vimy was both a successful military and civilian aircraft, flying into the history books on excursions to Capetown, Australia and the first ever flight across the Atlantic (piloted by Alcock and Brown) in 1919. This replica of the original aeroplane performed its last public display flight at on Sunday 20th September at the Goodwood revival 2009. However im sure that was said of the Avro Vulcan at one point so you never know, it left Goodwood airfield bound for Brooklands Museum in Surrey to live out its remaining days.
    unfortunately the scheduled flight for the day went of plan and i was in the wrong place as it flew over an hour early over shooting towards the sun on a grey sky making for a not so brilliant picture, none the less its still ok ish.

    Vickers vimy Goodwood Festival of Speed - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    Enjoy
    Wayne.

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    Avro Vulcan XH-558 – Revival More pictures and video

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Monday, 21st, Sep, 2009

    I have decided to post some more pictures today of the Avro Vulcan from yesterday as 1 just doesn’t do it justice or bring in the actual scale and how close and low it was. From left to right picture 1 is “as shot” reduced in size to fit on your screen, when i reduce the images to fit screen size it loses definition if you try to magnify it, picture 2 is the same image but cropped to give a closer look with more detail yet still resized to fit, picture 3 is the unedited natural size of the original photo but cropped to only show the aircraft, yes it really was that close! and lastly picture 4 is another angle looking north.

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    Be sure to check back this week as there are more images from the revival to come spitfires, mustangs and some classic cars too……who would have thought?

    Lastly i have come across a video (thanks bro) on you tube filmed well with excellent sound capture something i didn’t achieve, probably one of the best videos ive seen.

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    Avro Vulcan XH-558 – Goodwood Revival 2009

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Sunday, 20th, Sep, 2009

    I vividly remember standing on a raised bank by the river Lavant back in 1982 as a boy of 9 my mother standing next to me and the noise of this awesome amazing aircraft, i have waited 27 years to see this beauty in the sky above my head sadly my mum was not with me today but she was in my heart, and i will never forget the joy in her face jumping up and down in excitement when it flew over it gave me a shiver and a chill then as it did today, thank you to all at the vulcan to the sky trust that have made a cherished memory come to life again, long live the vulcan.

    Avro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    Shot from here (belated thanks to the land owner).

    Some information about the Avro Vulcan and what makes it so special designed in 1947, measuring 97ft or 29.59 meters long (that’s 2 1/2 buses) with a wingspan of 99ft or 30.18 meters with a top speed of 627mph (just under mach 1) so successful was the technology involved in the design of these aircraft the engines were later scaled up to power Concorde.
    All in all there were 136 Vulcan bombers built comprising of 2 prototypes 45 mk 1 and 89 mk 2 although only 16 remain in existence in museums there are 4 nose sections that were kept however XH558 is the ONLY fully working vulcan at this present time, and finally if you thought your car was high maintenance or not good miles per gallon this baby burns about £1000 of fuel every 20 mins.!!!! not for nipping to the shops.

    I wonder if i will ever get to photograph the Vulcan and Red arrows in the same picture another 27 years perhaps?

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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