Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Daedalus airport

When we are practicing flying sport kites with our L-katz team at Stokes Bay, we occasionally see a Spitfire fly over, do some aerobatics and then return again in the direction of Daedalus airport. 

Recently, an approaching storm made us cancel team-flying for the day, but we decided to meet up with the team anyway, for lunch, in the cafe on Daedalus airport.



After we parked the car, and walked along Daedalus Drive ...


... we saw a few small airplanes parked.

And then, as we got closer to the cafe and the observation area, we saw the Spitfire parked, preparing to take off!






'Our' Spitfire has registration BS410, and a bit more on its history can be found here. During lunch, the aircraft refuelled, and then took off again, with another passenger.

A few video snippets of 'our' Spitfire taxi-ing and taking off are here:

In all, the best lunch at Cafe 05 we could have hoped for!



And, sorry (not sorry), but this picture just had to be taken ....

at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Supermarine factory sites - then and now

This is an aerial photo of the Supermarine Woolston factory on the banks of the Itchen in the 1930s, prior to it being bombed by the Luftwaf...

  • Shirley Spitfire Trail
    Following on from our visit to the Solent Sky Museum , we set out to walk the Shirley Spitfire Trail, which is right in our neighbourhood! T...
  • Unveiling plaque #9!
    The Spitfire Makers Charitable Trust aims to commemorate the people and places where parts of Spitfire were made, following the bombing of ...
  • Solent Sky Museum
    It all started with a leaflet given to Irma by one of her garden customers. The leaflet contained information on Spitfires, especially on th...