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D Day 75 Daedalus commemorations

A family event at Solent Airport Daedalus to commemorate 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy on the 6th June 1944.

The high wind on Saturday proved too much for some of the displays, however the wind relented on Sunday allowing the planned flying programme to go ahead.

D_Day 75 Daedalus. Douglas Dakota “Drag ‘em Oot” at Solent Airport Daedalus to mark the 75 anniversary of the D-Day landings by allied forces in Normandy 1944
D Day 75 Daedalus. Douglas Dakota “Drag ‘em Oot” at Solent Airport Daedalus to mark the 75 anniversary of the D_Day landings by allied forces in Normandy 1944

Many missions were flown over Normandy in support of Operation Overlord from the Daedalus airfield.

The airfield continued to be a Royal Navy establishment until it was de-commissioned in 1996.

The thumbnails below show some of the images I took over the weekend, please click on any thumbnail to view the images in a gallery.

For more information and pictures follow the link to D_Day 75 Daedalus Commemorations and the BBC News


Daedalus Common Men at Work

Daedalus Common Solent Airport Daedalus

The setting sun silhouetting diggers and operatives working on Daedalus Common.

The Common is one of a number of community facilities provided to help soften the blow of having a large building housing high voltage transformers and associated cables on an active airfield.

More planned community facilities related to IFA2 include a heritage facility, play area and a gate guardian.

 

 

Solent Airport Daedalus Boultbee Spitfire

Solent Airport Daedalus

We are lucky in the Stubbington area  to have the Boultbee Flight Acadamy Spitfires flying from Solent Airport Daedalus

Boultbee Spitfire at Solent AirportIt has been great to see and hear the Spitfire flying from the airfield, particularly after the loss of the Portsmouth Naval Gliding Centre.

While I cannot match the quality of the  photographs on their website it has been great fun trying!

There has even been TV presenter James Martin thrown in for good measure.

The thumbnails below are some of the photographs I have taken over the past week. Please click on any thumbnail to view the images in a carousel.

Have a look at my gallery of aviation photographs or browse the other galleries on Out To Grass Photography.

 

Solent Airport at Daedalus

Film crews and WW2 era planes at the former HMS Daedalus airfield now renamed by Fareham Borough Council as Solent Airport at Daedalus. Photographs taken from Kate’s Diner next to the control tower and  from Gosport Road.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109, commonly called the Me 109 (most often by Allied aircrew and even amongst the German aces themselves, even though this was not the official German designation), is a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid-1930s (Wikipedia)

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries before, during and after the Second World War. The Spitfire was built in many variants, using several wing configurations, and was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. It was also the only British fighter to be in continuous production throughout the war (Wikipedia)