I was discussing with a friend today the footage of a Spitfire being used as a target by a Hawker Hunter, he hasn’t seen the footage, so I thought I would see if I could find it on youtube. No luck, but I did find footage of said Spitfires being shot up by an F86, Sea Hawk, Meteor and with the aftermath of the Hunter attack, but without the well known footage of the actually hits! Anyway I thought some of you might find it interesting. But be warned its not for the faint hearted!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57Vwc6orec
Appologises if this has been posted before, but I don’t remember seeing it and the search comes up blank.
By: daveg4otu - 26th October 2013 at 12:42
Spits and Seafires were ten a penny in the late 40s and 50s …I remember watching 2 Seafires being burnt at an airshow around 1954 …and next year they did it all again with another .
By: pogno - 25th October 2013 at 15:29
Not quite, watching the film shows them to be TE189 & PK369
Your right Dave, TE189 with 4 blade prop, is easily identified and is shown heavily damaged. Then a later mark with 5 blade prop, PK369 visible, is hit and the canopy falls off before that one is also heavily damaged. Last is a sequence, again of a 5 bladed aircraft tipped on its nose and heavily shot up, but this must be a third airframe as its canopy is still in place.
Richard
By: Thunderbird167 - 25th October 2013 at 14:26
Watching the film it would appear to be 3 Spitfires used not just the two identified.
See what you mean as the Hunter and Meteor (TE189) had one each with the third one being for the Sabre, Sea Hawk and Swift (PK369).
I think the unidentified one is the one demolished by the Hunter
By: Tin Triangle - 25th October 2013 at 13:35
That’s a fascinating video, and it certainly shows how much more devastating is the 30mm gun than the 20mm.
Sad that Spits got demolished I suppose, but if given the choice between going back in time and either preserving those three or the Swift F.1, I’d go for the swift any day of the week!
By: Arm Waver - 25th October 2013 at 11:27
Watching the film it would appear to be 3 Spitfires used not just the two identified.
By: Thunderbird167 - 25th October 2013 at 11:11
PK518 en PK519? Mark12 has the story
Cees
Not quite, watching the film shows them to be TE189 & PK369
By: CeBro - 25th October 2013 at 07:33
PK518 en PK519? Mark12 has the story
Cees
By: suthg - 25th October 2013 at 06:43
Those 30mm rounds were much more accurate but very devastating!! Five bladed prop, certainly a higher performance end of war spittie, – we flinch now at the damage inflicted on such a lovely plane!!
By: baj - 25th October 2013 at 03:53
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It stings to watch it……
By: skyskooter - 24th October 2013 at 21:49
Gosh! Those six 0.5’s on the Sabre throw up a lot of dirt but don’t seem to do much structural damage. Or did he miss?
By: QldSpitty - 24th October 2013 at 07:24
I always disliked this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLLDi-M3fk
By: snafu - 24th October 2013 at 00:04
What history did those Spits have, up until being targets? What date were the trials?
By: clarkejw - 23rd October 2013 at 23:37
I need a drink after watching that, and it’s only 0938 here in Australia!
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October 23, 2013 at 8:45 pm