This blog serves as a resource for photographers and spotters visiting the LIMA Airshow 2013 (26-30 March 2013) at Langkawi, Malaysia. The main Guide To LIMA is at the first post, dated 12th February 2013.
Selamat Datang!
In between LIMA airshows, the blog will focus on regional military events and wherever else my camera takes me.
The static display is divided into two parts: the part actually displayed on the apron, and the artefacts still housed within the safety of the Shuttleworth Collections hangars. On a Flying Day, a goodly amount of the aircraft and vintage cars will have been wheeled out into the sunshine.
This is a short clip of the scene inside one of the hangars:
MUSEUM DISPLAY
The first hangar that greets you is the Restoration Hangar in Hangar 1. What resides inside currently is a Dragon Rapide.
Once through the Museum Shop, this door greets you. I am in awe how they preserve all the machines functionally.
de Havilland DH-60 Moth (1925)
Southern Martlet (1929)
I do not know what glider this is, but how art deco it looks!
Hawker Cygnet (1924)
Comper CLA7 Swift (1929)
Bristol Boxkite replica (1910)
1912 Blackburn Monoplane- the oldest flying British aircraft in existence
de Havilland dH 88 Comet (1934)- very, very famous aircraft. It warranted an illustration in most of my books on aircraft when I was a kid, What great lines!
Ryan PT-22 (1941)
English Electric Wren (1923)
1910 Deperdussin- another ancient machine
Once you had aircraft, you had anti-aircraft guns too.
Parnall Elf (1929)
Avro Tutor
Grumman Wildcat (1943)
Link Trainer
John Stringfellow's 1848 monoplane (replica)
A replica of an aero workshop in the old days
An exhibit of power plants and props
As planes became more advanced, so did their power plants
Richard Shuttleworth was a racing driver too, so cars make up a goodly amount of the Collection
Bicycles, quadricycles and horse-drawn coaches too.
And these are just a small number of the treasures found within the Collection's hangars.
This being a Flying Day, some of the exhibits in the hangars have been towed out into the freedom of the open air.
This is a 360 degree shot of the above hangar I took with the Samsung S4
STATIC DISPLAY
Westland Lysander
Westland Lysander
Gloster Gladiator
Fieseler Storch
Hawker Demon and Gloster Gladiator
de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk
de Havilland dH-82 Tiger Moth
SE5a
Bristol F2b Fighter
Hawker Sea Hurricane
Miles Gemini
Avro 19 Anson
Avro 19 Anson
Percival Provost T1
Avro 504K
Sopwith Pup
The newly-restored Polikarpov Po-2
Polikarpov Po-2
Vintage car lineup
Vintage motorbikes too
You can return home with a handmade prop replica
Aviation books were on sale too, of course.
Models galore on sale
Making traction engines was how the Shuttleworths came into wealth. Below is an example made by Hoffher Schrantz, Clayton and Shuttleworth K40 (1935), which spent most of its working life in Australia before being acquired by the Shuttleworth Trust in 1990.
Say what you like, they really engineered things to last in the old days.
Another well-maintained traction engine building up a head of steam
