Spitfire Low Pass

T’was indeed Ray doing the “driving” in his trusty steed,MH434 and it was Alain De Cadanet who had the sh1tes put up him:D.

Rumour had it that the producer kept going for more takes because he reckoned Ray wasn’t getting ‘434 low enough so on that pass he must have thought I’ll give ’em low,save the Duxford grass cutters a job and old De Cadanet a few quid at the barbers while I’m at it.

Seriously though,it really is a great testament to Ray’s superb skills and his full confidence in MH434 to do what he wanted just when he wanted her to do it.

Mark

That rumour is entirely untrue, it wasn’t staged at all, Ray was taking off for a display elsewhere and i thought it would be a good idea to film Alain at the end of the runway as he took off, the rest is history!

Biscuit taken.

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The guv’nor at Goodwood 1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnc78LW7V1U

Biscuit taken.

FINALLY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKrgDsITx4

And another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_CaOmKUztY

Not the one I was looking for, but close!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXyt0u-1Nc

NICE! 😀

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There you go! Hope you enjoy it, it’s a great book and goes into just some of the detail of how to make an aviation epic!

While we’re on the subject of low-level Spitfire flypasts, there’s a nice one of PL965 floating around on YouTube, taken at Duxford…

That sounds good, Daz. Just found it on Amazon for £4.95.:D

There was a book, cunningly titled How They Made Piece of Cake, by Herbie Knott and Robert Eagle. If you can pick it up, it’s absolutely fantastic. The images alone make your mouth water!

I remember the scene from the original series but was there ever a behind the scenes bit or coverage of how it was done, the planning etc, that I would love to see almost as much as the actual flight.

And more…………..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj73NTO8144&feature=related

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Ah – “Piece of Cake” – brilliant! And as Daz says only CGI nowadays.:(

makes interesting reading
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36910&highlight=spitfire+low+pass

Mark12… put the spoon down slowly and no-one gets hurt!:diablo:

AG

The Piece of Cake stunt was truly something. They’d do it with CGI these days… :rolleyes:

Always love watching that! the others that i remember are Mark H in the P40 (i think at Biggin) and Ray through the bridge for “Piece of Cake” the masters at work and sadly missed.