Oh Barry, brilliant photos of a truly graceful period of early aviation, right up there with the Demoiselle and the Antoinette, graceful and elegant! Thank you!I
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That one is from the Shuttleworth Collection
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
A rare bird - at least to me .
Nice pics, Baz.
Nice pic of a pre-war kite Baz, what a beauty !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Type_D
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Very graceful for a pre-war kite! Nice pics Barry.
Beautiful pictures Barry. Following that link I can see that it was built for a Cyril Foggin. He died in a motor vehicle accident in France on the 30th of July 1918.
Super photos!
A proper spiders' web!!!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Men & their flying chests...
Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!
Another beautiful bird that I will never get to fly Baz.
Kyte.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Great pictures of such an old aircraft, Barry!
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