Sitting in the Garden typing this while a Spitfire rolls, swoops and generally throws itself about against a perfect blue sky right above my head. Bloody Marvellous. Cheers, Adam. And I'd just been sat there reading this: http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/2000/news.html Even better.
Sitting in the Garden typing this while a Spitfire rolls, swoops and generally throws itself about against a perfect blue sky right above my head. Bloody Marvellous. Cheers, Adam. I really could take an intense dislike to you. Not only did you have to tell me this, but I have had to pull out of Cosford Airshow tomorrow cos of bloody work. Distinctly unimpressed Kitty.
You lucky bastard! All we had here was the sunshine (the occasional Tornado goes over at a 100ft or so but nothing else) and that was it would of been great for a Spit to fly around above the house though...
Found out it was for a local school/village fete, they save all the money usually used for lucky dips and other strangeness and instead have a Spitfire fly over every year. Very Sensible!
I agree, great idea! Ditto. I wonder if I save up my wages I can have a Spit fly over my house all day. Wonderful.
One time I was sitting with my family at a flea market on the Hudson River at Liberty State Park, eating my hamburger. I hear a plane droning, look up, and see a B-17 flying down the river. I just said casually, "Hmm. Here comes a B-17." Then I froze and yelled, "A B-17!" Sure enough, a B-17G was flying down the river and with all due grandeur, it looped around the Statue of Liberty at low altitude, and flew back north. That was some double-take. But a year later, on Memorial Day, I was showing a pal from New Zealand the Statue, and we were on the boat going back, when another B-17, joined by a B-24, slowly flew down the river and around the Statue. My pal was smart...he had his camera. They were from a museum in Massachusetts.
Another beautiful day today, standing with my head out of the skylight trying to retrieve a piece of wood (long story) and a Dakota, invasion stripes and all, went right over the house, very low, absolutely beautiful. Same clear blue sky as the Spit. I couldn't have been in a better viewing spot and am now hoping I'm on some sort of 'classic flightpath'... I know so little about the Aeroplanes but they really are the most evocative reminders of World War 2 that I ever encounter... She put a smile on my face anyway,
She is a lovely bird to see isn't she? I watched her throughout a day last summer whilst at work as she was taking aviation geeks on jaunts out of Manchester airport. Only wish i could have been one of them. *Sigh*
I'd be willing to offer internal organs just to touch a Spitfire. Not necessarily my organs.... RAF Turnhouse had a Spit LFXVI as gate guardian and we had hours of innocent fun standing inside the NAAFI watching the tourists at the spit. What normally happened was that they would look around and if nobody was watching(sic) climb over the small chain and touch the Spit!
In a similar vein I was stroking little Willie last weekend...... errrrrrm. Should point out that's 'Tank number 1' at Bovington (my avatar) ... not........something else
She is a lovely bird to see isn't she? I watched her throughout a day last summer whilst at work as she was taking aviation geeks on jaunts out of Manchester airport. Only wish i could have been one of them. *Sigh* What is the charge for a jaunt?
In a similar vein I was stroking little Willie last weekend...... errrrrrm. Should point out that's 'Tank number 1' at Bovington (my avatar) ... not........something else Does it have your name on the other side?
What is the charge for a jaunt? Not sure. I think it was about £100 - 150. it was advertised in all the aviation magazines, but by the time i got told about it it was too late. Typical.
Sitting in the Garden typing this while a Spitfire rolls, swoops and generally throws itself about against a perfect blue sky right above my head. Bloody Marvellous. Cheers, Adam. And I'd just been sat there reading this: http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/2000/news.html Even better. Some people have all the luck. Living in Windsor all I get is a steady stream of passenger jets landing at Heathrow. Sometimes shake hands with the pilot as they fly over my garden
