h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

70 years on and the Spit still makes the heart skip a bit.

Went back and reread my EG Entry A10422325 The Supermarine Spitfire - Aviation Legend, and it still does me proud

You should have been in my garden a couple of weeks ago - I'm on the flight path for Farnborough, and we had a treat all week: Battle of Britain memorial flight, red arrows, etc. Didn't know what half of them were, but they made me gulp with pride.

Great picture on this page: http://www.bbmf.co.uk/aircraft.html

(No, that's not my house)

That must have been quite a show.

I love the sound of a Merlin...mmmm

If you ever want to go see a Spitfire fly like it was meant to, along with other 'real' aeroplanes from all ages, you could do worse than go here: http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft.asp

That includes standing in the slipstream as the engine is run up. Things tend to get close up and personal on a small airfield.

For anyone who loves aeroplanes this place is pure heaven.

The pagaent air display on 7 Sept would be a good day to go. take a look at the flying list.
http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_events.asp

Deke

I Love flying. LoL

The Spit that used to belong to the actor Cliff Robertson was kept near where I live. No museum piece, it was regularly flown by Jerry Billings who shot down a few Germans in one like it. (not lately, but during the war)

I used to hear the Merlin from some distance and would run out of my house on Sunday mornings to see Jerry just barely clipping the treetops behind my house.

BofB day today