Southampton Spitfire Flypast 5th March

Actually saw a news story on the sunday night news on the event….HERE IN COLORADO….complete with footage of BM597 and the Irish Spitfire with Henshaw in the back and a flight of 5 going right to left….I was stunned that our local news would say anything at all! Nice to see that they did…really woke me up before I headed to bed!

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IAC161 – John Romain + Alex Henshaw
SM845 – Rod Dean
TD248 – Cliff Spink
TA805 – Lee Proudfoot
BM597 – Charlie Brown
1747 “Taz” (Harvard camera ship) – Rats

All maintained at ARC I believe 😉 (the aircraft as well!!!!) 😀

I thought I spotted Lee Proudfoot this morning, so quite possible.

Maybe add Lee Proudfoot and Charlie Brown to that list??

Gorgeous 😀

The Spitfires involved are

Mk.XVIII SM845
Mk.IX TA805
Mk.V BM597
Mk.XVI TD248 I think.

…and TR.IX G-CCCA.

Who were the pilots? I spotted Rod Dean and John Romain. I assume CR-S was Cliff Spink(?).

Isn’t it a shame that the late Ray Hanna won’t be around to celebrate the 70th anniversary?

I was thinking exactly the same thing whilst watching the excellent footage from the Harvard, I don’t think Ray would have had too many complaints about the formation.

I would suggest that you keep BBC News 24 on.
10 mins ago lovely feature live from Eastleigh on the tarmac including an interview with Alex Henshaw in one of the cockpits, I can’t believe that he’s 93.
The BBC are hoping to put a live camera in the back of the a/c with him which should be interesting, I’m pleased to see that the BBC are making a big thing of this, and yes, where is RJM buried.

RJM is buried in a churchyard some 1000 yds off the end of the runway of Eastleigh on the centre line more or less

Looking forward to this. Isn’t it a shame that the late Ray Hanna won’t be around to celebrate the 70th anniversary?

I would suggest that you keep BBC News 24 on.
10 mins ago lovely feature live from Eastleigh on the tarmac including an interview with Alex Henshaw in one of the cockpits, I can’t believe that he’s 93.
The BBC are hoping to put a live camera in the back of the a/c with him which should be interesting, I’m pleased to see that the BBC are making a big thing of this, and yes, where is RJM buried.

WOW sounds great. I find it lovely that they would have flown over the great man himself’s grave too as they took off……………………

Out of interest (and forgive my ignorance) but where is RJM’s grave site??? 😮

WOW sounds great. I find it lovely that they would have flown over the great man himself’s grave too as they took off……………………

G-CCCA (T.9 ‘161’) flew in yesterday morning with the harvard 🙂 i belive Mr Henshaw will be 161’s passenger today 🙂

Gorgeous 😀

The Spitfires involved are

Mk.XVIII SM845
Mk.IX TA805
Mk.V BM597
Mk.XVI TD248 I think.

…and TR.IX G-CCCA.

To anyone who’s interested, you can listen to southampton tower on 118.200, and southampton aproach on 120.225 🙂

Hi all…….. all 4 of them came belting over the roof tops, box formation at exactly 10.30 😀 😀 😮 😮 i live only a short distance from southampton airport see, just on the edge of the eastern circuit, i get most of the traffic as it turns in to line up. Right over the garden they came bout 200ft made a hard banked turn north back towards the airfield, dropped down the the hill for a run and break 😀 then back round again a few mins later gear down 😀 Lovely!!!

9:45, wow, one Spitfire just roared across the front of my window heading south, didn’t even have to move to see it, so where are the other 3 then, as I’ve said before I tend to be on the transit route from Duxford, I presumed that 4 would come over together, mind you, I’m honoured to have seen just one so low on such a special day.

The last Spitfire formation over Southampton Water that I can recall was in 2000. A formation of 13 Spits and a truly fantastic tailchase that seemed to go on forever 🙂 🙂 .

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29493&highlight=seawings

The Spitfire (G-CCCA/’161′) and Harvard did some formation flying over Eastleigh at around 1330hrs.
What a sound!

The Harvard and a Spitfire (unidentified) flew up and then down Southampton Water at 1250 hrs, went past Lee on Solent at about 1,200 ft.

The Harvard has arrived. It rasped over my head about an hour and a half ago 😀