A low flying Spitfire...
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You can say that again!
www.zippyvideos.com/2687907162980446/low_flying_spitfire/
Word of warning this has swearing at the end, might be better with sound on low if you're at work!
www.zippyvideos.com/2687907162980446/low_flying_spitfire/
Word of warning this has swearing at the end, might be better with sound on low if you're at work!
ZR1cliff said:
Love that clip,imagine what it must of been like in the skies over Europe during WW2,the noise and sights must of been something else.
I mean that in the best possible way.
I understand fully what you mean - that engine is the soundtrack of a nation. No wonder Clarkson keeps going on about it!
me! F
cowhead said:
Love that clip,imagine what it must of been like in the skies over Europe during WW2,the noise and sights must of been something else.
I mean that in the best possible way.
I understand fully what you mean - that engine is the soundtrack of a nation. No wonder Clarkson keeps going on about it!
When you get out of a motor with 5-600 hp and incredible torque its enough to make you weak at the knees and giggling like an excited school girl but to imagine being in one of these great fighters with the acceleration and noise to match up to 400+ miles an hour would be heaven
ZR1cliff said:
When you get out of a motor with 5-600 hp and incredible torque its enough to make you weak at the knees and giggling like an excited school girl but to imagine being in one of these great fighters with the acceleration and noise to match up to 400+ miles an hour would be heaven
Later ones had ~2000bhp I believe.
dieseljohn said:
When you get out of a motor with 5-600 hp and incredible torque its enough to make you weak at the knees and giggling like an excited school girl but to imagine being in one of these great fighters with the acceleration and noise to match up to 400+ miles an hour would be heaven
Later ones had ~2000bhp I believe.
Imagine the first day at work after recieving your wings and being shown to your kite by the c/o,your only 19 and chomping at the bit.
Bloke with handle bar tash..."Good show old chap,now pay attention!, this is the machine you will be flying,it is a rather fast earoplane and if your good old chap we will go for a sortie after lunch"...
19 year old pilot.....
Mark 1 Spitfires had 1,100 hp Merlins. The later Mk IX had a two stage compressor boosting the power to over 1,500 hp. The later Griffon powered Spitfires peaked at just over 2,000 hp.
I think the late, great Ray Hanna was flying that Spitfire in the de Cadanet clip.
And what about the Sea Fury, with a 2,500 hp Centaurus or the last piston engined airliners of the 1950s, which had massive turbo AND supercharged 3,500 hp radial piston engines.
I think the late, great Ray Hanna was flying that Spitfire in the de Cadanet clip.
And what about the Sea Fury, with a 2,500 hp Centaurus or the last piston engined airliners of the 1950s, which had massive turbo AND supercharged 3,500 hp radial piston engines.
Eric Mc said:
I think the late, great Ray Hanna was flying that Spitfire
Believe so, and the story I hear is that it was Take 3 - the director told him he wasn't low enough in the first two attempts, so...
Hanna did a similar stunt at the first Goodwood Revival meeting a few years ago.
ZR1cliff said:
When you get out of a motor with 5-600 hp and incredible torque its enough to make you weak at the knees and giggling like an excited school girl but to imagine being in one of these great fighters with the acceleration and noise to match up to 400+ miles an hour would be heaven
Later ones had ~2000bhp I believe.
Imagine the first day at work after recieving your wings and being shown to your kite by the c/o,your only 19 and chomping at the bit.
Bloke with handle bar tash..."Good show old chap,now pay attention!, this is the machine you will be flying,it is a rather fast earoplane and if your good old chap we will go for a sortie after lunch"...
19 year old pilot.....
You should try reading this....
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141008148/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/202-4938520-5918233
Gives a very readable account of a young pilot in those times. The exhilaration and the sheer terror.
They were all young (well, almost all of them were).
It's great book - I would highly recommend it.
I've just finished reading Hugh Verity's accounts of the Lysander and Hudson "spy" and resistance leader drops and pickups into and out of France. Not as glamorous as flying fighters but hazardous none the less.
It's great book - I would highly recommend it.
I've just finished reading Hugh Verity's accounts of the Lysander and Hudson "spy" and resistance leader drops and pickups into and out of France. Not as glamorous as flying fighters but hazardous none the less.
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