Jaguar: a car, not a plane - just dressed as a plane (so don't get confused!)...
Jaguar XJ | 303 Sqn by Professor M, on Flickr
The RAF's Typhoon Display opened the show - more modern front-line RAF participation came from the Chinook role-demo later in the day (meanwhile the BBMF had been due to open the show, but were pushed back to the end of the display and then cancelled altogether due to weather)...
RAF Typhoon FGR4 | ZK311 by Professor M, on Flickr
The ever impressive Jet Pitts was one of many aerobatic acts present, the list also including The Starlings, Aerosuperbatics Wingwalkers, Team Raven and the Stampe Formation Team...
Pitts S-2S | "Jet Pitts" | Rich Goodwin | G-JPIT by Professor M, on Flickr
Brendan O'Brien flew a Schleicher ASK-21 from locally-based Cambridge Gliding Club...
Schleicher ASK-21 | G-CHTV | Cambridge Gliding Club by Professor M, on Flickr
Then came an Asian set-piece, starting with Grasshoppers, Auster and Bird Dog (the latter a welcome, unadvertised addition)...
Piper L-4J Grasshopper | 44-80480 | Piper L-4H Grasshopper | 479766 | Auster AOP6 | VF516 | Cessna L-19E Bird Dog | G-JDOG | 24-541 by Professor M, on Flickr
...then the R4D and Spitfire FRXIV came in for some attack runs (with pyros)...
Douglas R4D-6S | N151ZE | Ready 4 Duty | Supermarine Spitfire FRXIV | MV293 | G-SPIT | Fighter Aviation Engineering Ltd by Professor M, on Flickr
... before the Cobra finished off the job...
Bell TAH-1P Cobra | OK-AHC | Heliczech by Professor M, on Flickr
Cessna L-19E Bird Dog | 24-541 | G-JDOG by Professor M, on Flickr
A nod to 1940 with the Blenheim, joined by Spitfire Ia N3200 & Hurricane I P2902...
Hawker Hurricane I | P2902 | Fighter Aviation Engineering Ltd | Supermarine Spitfire Ia | N3200 | IWM | Bristol Blenheim IF | L6739 | ARCo by Professor M, on Flickr
As the sun remained behind some substantial clouds, the AAC Capability Demo was followed by a training sequence of a Yak-52, Chipmunk and Bulldog, then a Jet Provost T5 and bringing things up to date, the RAF's Tutor. Things then got rather damp by the time the B-17 flew with the Thunderbolt...
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress | G-BEDF | Sally B by Professor M, on Flickr
Immediately after Team Raven finished their display, the sun came out for the Apaches to once again head back to Wattisham (they arrived at Duxford in the morning, departed back to Wattisham "for fuel" at the start of the flying display, landed after their Capability Demonstration and then departed at the end of the day)...
AAC AH-64E Apache | ZM741 by Professor M, on Flickr
Thanks for looking.
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