I went to the Battle Of Britain Day Flypast at Goodwood last September.
They had (iirc) 39 Spits and Hurricanes flying. The spiel in the programme
explained that the organiser had contacted the owners of all known flying
Spits and invited them to participate. One came from California, having
dismantled his plane, put it in a container and reassembled it over here !
It was a sensory wow to see, hear, smell all that stuff happening.
Jez.
On Tuesday, 30 August 2016, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree, Chuck, the P-51 has a special sound especially at speed.
>
> I don’t know how many Spits are still flying, but I watched 13 (I think it
> was) airborne at the same time at Duxford – a sight to behold and what a
> sound. Unfortunately that was the show at which an old Fairey Firefly (of
> the Royal Navy Historic Flight); both crew died. I was there with a former
> member of the List, Gary Edwards, and a friend of his who were visiting the
> UK.
>
> Chris
> (who was -4 in 1950 :-))
>
> > On 30 Aug 16, at 00:35, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > I second Bob's comments but other things that can always catch my eye
> are the Spitfire and P-51. Any idea how many Spitfires are still flying?
> Seeing a P-51 takes me instantly to my boyhood of about 6-7 years of age.
> We lived next to an Air National Guard base that was equipped with P-51s.
> There was a road that was very close to and paralleled the runway. When I
> see a P-51 I'm suddenly riding my bike down that road watching them take
> off or land.
> >
> > When I first started to write this I though I must have been older than
> 7. But I looked up the history of that unit which says they had already
> moved on to F-84s from the P-51 by 1950. I was 7 in 1950.
>
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