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Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Ruairidh Dunford - 29-07-2022
If anyone has film/photos, please post up.
My first experience of a Spitfire fly by - terrifying noise!
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Reckless Rat - 29-07-2022
There is nothing like the sound of a Merlin engine, other than 4 of them at the same time (Lancaster)
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Peter Clayton - 29-07-2022
Glorious to have that other British icon salute the Sevens at Morton in Marsh. Would have been nice if it could have taken pictures of us as it did its passes.
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Tony Griffiths - 29-07-2022
(29-07-2022, 01:22 PM)Reckless Rat Wrote: There is nothing like the sound of a Merlin engine, other than 4 of them at the same time (Lancaster)
I was lucky enough to witness the UK and Canadian Lancasters flying together over the Ladybower dams a few ago. My mother related a story to me of one section of a thousand-bomber raid assembling over Lincolnshire; her memory was that as the planes circled round to gather in formation, the ground appear to vibrate and the noise frightening.
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Henry Harris - 29-07-2022
(29-07-2022, 01:22 PM)Reckless Rat Wrote: There is nothing like the sound of a Merlin engine, other than 4 of them at the same time (Lancaster)
or a DB 605
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Peter Clayton - 29-07-2022
One of my greatest thrills was to fly alongside the Lancaster whilst I was doing a few circuits of Hurn airport. Couldn't match their speed but for a few seconds WOW. Never to be forgotten.
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Peter Sweeney - 29-07-2022
Tried to post Vidio but System would not allow. Pete
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Ruairidh Dunford - 29-07-2022
If you can upload it to YouTube, it is possible to post a link, this Forum cannot host videos direct, unfortunately.
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Denis Sweeney - 29-07-2022
I had the thrill of my life when my good lady treated me to a flight in a spitfire for my 70th birthday.
Left from Biggin Hill flew out along the Thames estuary then across the Kent countryside and out over Dover, then west along the coast then back up over Leeds Castle and back to Biggin Hill.
About an hour in the air and I was able to take “control” which was a truly amazing never to be forgotten experience
RE: Centenary Event - Spitfire flyover… - Nick Lettington - 29-07-2022
As no-one else has been brave enough to attempt this... rubbish filming but the noise is unmistakable...
https://youtu.be/XtJX4oim-Rg