16 Spitfires overhead.
Old clip but just found it.
Seeing as there's only about fifty flying at the moment, a very rare thing.
What a sound.
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waz4444 Escorts, bescorts - Come in if you're saucy., Mon 18 Jun 2012, 1:02,
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Fantastic machines.
Not a plane enthusiast but I'd love to fly one of those bad boys.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 1:07,
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^very much this
I categorically deny I would talk in a Etonian way and make machine-gun noises while doing so, too.
"Up tiddly up, down diddly down, whoops up twiddly-dee and then home in time for tea and medals".
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DrPrunesquallor veni, posteri, scarperi, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 9:46,
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goggles on/chocks away/last one back's a homo!
I think there's one or maybe two spitfires that have had a passenger seat installed. I would vomit everywhere, but it would be awesome welles to zip around in one!
(, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 10:43, Reply)
As nipper
There was a air show in Wanaka every second year and they had these and mustangs etc. Great stuff to watch.
www.warbirdsandwheels.co.nz/?url=/ Stored here.
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jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Mon 18 Jun 2012, 1:57,
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They sound ace
I saw this at a friends house not long ago..A low pass.
He says 'fuck me' a few times so 'nsfw' www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDDDKnNhuE
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Less dramatic but still good:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjryyd6XlI0&feature=g-upl
Spitfire (actually it's the marine-rigged version - Seafire) and Hurricane in formation flyby from the prestigious Henstridge Airfield fly-in a couple of years back. You can't really make it out but the Hurricane is going absolutely flat out while the Spitfire is barely ticking over.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 10:14,
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I like your link
but I wouldn't say either were really going flat out plus the Merlin's a smaller engine (27 litre) than the Griffon (37 litre)
In a dogfight, my money's on the Hurricane coming home after a pasting and up flying again soonest.
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Was there at Duxford when this happened a couple of years ago
It was a thing of beauty!
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Jsysco is mostly a lurker, mostly, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 10:22,
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well wicked
...the P51 Mustang is up there in with the Spit in the 'sounds awesome stakes'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ouJ_WyS9v8
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bigmeuprudeboy is using powerpoint or paint...have MERCY, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 12:31,
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goddammit
makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck
absolutely fucking awesome
3.15 the sound of that engine
thanks for posting
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I love this. I adore spitfires.
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skeltonator Michael Gondrys' undercrackers, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 15:40,
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It is a testimony to the engineering involved that planes like the B52 are still in active service
It is a privilege that these spitfires are still flying. I am actually saddened by the one hung in the Kelvingrove art gallery, gathering dust.
My grandad told me of the times he saw the sky full of planes. I wasn't paying much attention, but presumably 1940. I can only imagine this noise times a dozen, for a prolonged period. It is truly frightening. But only really after seeing this. I am happy to say, when I got told that story whilst walking in the Cotswalds, I really couldn't picture it, except maybe like being overwhelmed by bluebottles.
/whisky.
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gaijintendo I got the most tepid links on da internet, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 23:43,
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