The prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight on 5th March 1936 and in May 1996 an airshow was held at Duxford in Cambridgeshire to commemorate the 60th anniversary of this event.
Duxford was a particularly poignant venue as it was, as mentioned in an earlier post, the first RAF station to operate the Spitfire.On the weekend that the show was held the weather was kind and a great display was put on culminating in a flypast of twenty plus Spitfires.
I took over a hundred photographs on the Sunday with my old Pentax P.30 SLR film camera and recently sorted through them and scanned most into my computer and have now put them together as a slide show on YouTube which you can see here. Not all of the pictures are of the best quality but non-the-less they are are record of the event.
If you would prefer to see these photos at a more leisurely pace and higher resolution they can be viewed as a set on Flickr.
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