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  In the second of my films from The Victory Show in 2026 the focus shifts to the Aircraft and the Magnificent flying machines of the era. On the ever popular flight line walk we see the beautiful chrome plated "Hap-penstance" a rare Douglas DC-3/C-47 Skytrain and is famously the last surviving C-41A. Next up we walk the line of smaller aircraft in bright colours etc these where the ones who took part in the famous dogfights of the war. With various aircraft flying high over the showground there is movement on the runway as the Lockheed 12A Electra G-AFTL manoeuvres for take off. Then gliding high overhead we see the Arial ballet of the airborne pyrotechnics display team before the twin propellers of the Bristol Blenheim Mk.IFL6739 (G-BPIV) start up and it makes it's way onto the runway too. Next up a very special Spitfire variant known as the aerolite spitfire a modern take on a classic design and then almost as if to offer a compassion the original version can ...

A look at Standing With Giants  a community project, set up in 2019 by Oxfordshire community artist, Dan Barton, and a group of local volunteers. Creating large scale art installations using recycled building materials they provide meaningful spaces for people to visit and reflect At the 20th edition of The Victory Show in Cosby Leicester visitors where invited to walk through and experience one such installation. As the walk through begins we see the black silhouettes positioned on the banks of a small lake posed as if heading into battle, the sound of a simulated skirmish in the woods adds to the impact of the shadows of past heroes heading into conflict. The silhouettes create a reflective atmosphere and area in direct contrast to the living history displays just meters away on the busy showground. We then cut to a second display at the event featuring giant cutouts of people and soldiers celebrating victory, as a marching band passes we end on a cutout featuring Sir Winston...

The Victory Show, one of the UK`s biggest wartime re-enactment shows, returned to Foxlands Farm in Cosby Leicestershire. The event now in it's 19th year sees re-enactment and Living History groups from across the country meet at the farm just outside the village of Cosby in Leicestershire and has grown over the years to include an airshow, an area of woodland and more, alongside the main encampment to bring to life and give visitors an idea of combat in theatres of war in varied areas across the world. My film gives viewers a look around the event and the various 'scenes' by the groups from engineers erecting a telephone system as a marching band passes, to a Jeep suspended from a crane !.  The action moves to the Battlefield where tanks, soldiers and all types of military hardware, including a flypast from a Lancaster Bomber, from the era recreate scenes seen across the globe during wartime, after the battle we are reminded that although this is a staged display battles li...

Part of The annual Victory Show in Cosby Leicestershire is a full program of airplane displays from the 1940`s era and often other very special displays such as round parachute drops and in 2019 a display from the RAF Falcons parachute display team. My film begins with the round parachutes preparing for the drop before we see the RAF Falcons perform their display against a perfect blue sky allowing them to perform the alternative stack. Also featured are the P-47D THUNDERBOLT, GAZELLE SQUADRON & PBY-5A CATALINA