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11th September 2014 #1
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Achtung Spitfeuer!
Was out on the bike yesterday evening when a Spitfire roared over on approach to our local airfield.
The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight have been using it as a bit of a staging post for the single engine planes during the display season. I went along there at 6.15pm today when it took off to do flypasts at Hullavington, Brize & Northolt . The sound of the Merlin engine as it went overhead was awesome. I was intending to go back for it's return at 7.30 but I got waylaid at home. Here's a couple of very poor quality pics from my phone :-
a proper pic from the RAF :-
It is number MK356 built in Castle Bromwich 1944. The plane is currently painted in D Day Invasion Stripes and it flew 60 sorties 14 April - 14 June 1944 before doing a wheels up landing. http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircra...tfiremk356.cfm
It is fantastic that this 70 year old war bird is still flying as a living memorial to those airmen who gave their lives
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11th September 2014 #2
Nice!!
Amazing spit
They used to build them here at South Marston Which was then the Vickers Armstrong plant, It is now all gone and in its place is a massive Honda plant where they use some of the original Spitfire test runways as a test track for thieir cars as they come of the assembly lines. Talk about Irony.''Don't be serious..Be Sincere''
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11th September 2014 #3
we was sitting down to dinner last last when we heard a tremendous roar coming over the house, deafening. I rushed outside as quick as I could but could not see a thing.
Apparently it was the red arrows display team roaring across East London on its way to the Invictus games. Would love to have seen them but to fast for me.
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