Wings and Wheels Show (Photos)
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 13 9:42 am
At East Fortune Museum of flight, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Had a really good day at this show on Sunday. The quality of the car show was poor but the venue more than made up for it.
Started with me and another C5 Corvette owner doing a 150? mile run up the A1 which when done at 7 o'clock in the morning is a damn fine drive anyway. Not much of it is dual carrageway once you a bit North of Newcastle. So driving up when there is little traffic about is the way to go.
We met another two Corvettes up there. A C5 convertible and a C6.
East Fortune is not a bad little air museum. Some good examples of military and civil aircraft.
Loads of history there about the airfield going back to WW1. Airship stuff too as they parked (or whatever it is called) there. An unexploded bomb dropped there from a Zepplin is on display.
A jet powered aircraft performed aerobatics in the air twice during the day. Very low at times. Pilot waving at us from just above hanger height. The Army White Helmet boys put on a stunning display of motorcycle stunts twice too.
The sun was out. My face and hands are brown. One side in particular as I had a 20min nap on the grassy side of a blast shelter....
The wind was strong (16mph) but warm.
There was so much stuff to do there I didn't get bored until nearly 4pm. Which is a record for me. The C6 had a dead battery when we came to go home. Previous owner had fitted a cheap one and it seems to have given up the ghost. We managed to source some jump leads though and he got home OK.
Coming home I drove further west to the Edinburgh by-pass and then down the start of the A68. Then turned south east on the A697 through Coldstream and Wooler.
It has been maybe 20 years since I last did the full length of this road. I had forgotten how bloody good it is.
Yes it probably added a half hour to my journey time home but it was more than worth it. There are some stunning bendy bits, amazing scenery, and some roman straight bits where I hit high rpms in top gear just because it was the middle of nowhere and I could.
Home by 7:30pm. 12 and a half hours of great fun. I highly recommend it for next year.
Photos;
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 971dde5745
Had a really good day at this show on Sunday. The quality of the car show was poor but the venue more than made up for it.
Started with me and another C5 Corvette owner doing a 150? mile run up the A1 which when done at 7 o'clock in the morning is a damn fine drive anyway. Not much of it is dual carrageway once you a bit North of Newcastle. So driving up when there is little traffic about is the way to go.
We met another two Corvettes up there. A C5 convertible and a C6.
East Fortune is not a bad little air museum. Some good examples of military and civil aircraft.
Loads of history there about the airfield going back to WW1. Airship stuff too as they parked (or whatever it is called) there. An unexploded bomb dropped there from a Zepplin is on display.
A jet powered aircraft performed aerobatics in the air twice during the day. Very low at times. Pilot waving at us from just above hanger height. The Army White Helmet boys put on a stunning display of motorcycle stunts twice too.
The sun was out. My face and hands are brown. One side in particular as I had a 20min nap on the grassy side of a blast shelter....
The wind was strong (16mph) but warm.
There was so much stuff to do there I didn't get bored until nearly 4pm. Which is a record for me. The C6 had a dead battery when we came to go home. Previous owner had fitted a cheap one and it seems to have given up the ghost. We managed to source some jump leads though and he got home OK.
Coming home I drove further west to the Edinburgh by-pass and then down the start of the A68. Then turned south east on the A697 through Coldstream and Wooler.
It has been maybe 20 years since I last did the full length of this road. I had forgotten how bloody good it is.
Yes it probably added a half hour to my journey time home but it was more than worth it. There are some stunning bendy bits, amazing scenery, and some roman straight bits where I hit high rpms in top gear just because it was the middle of nowhere and I could.
Home by 7:30pm. 12 and a half hours of great fun. I highly recommend it for next year.