Spitfire/Typhoon Duo – RAF Coningsby 2nd September 08

That PRXIX Spit, looks beautiful.

Great pics.

Not the first time a BBMF Spitfire has flown a display with a current combat aircraft – they did the same thing a few years back with P7350 and a Tornado.

Nice pics TEEJ.

Martin

Lovely photos TEEJ,

I really like the Typhoon underbelly! (But of course the first two with the spitfire & Typhoon together are favorites!).;)

cheers & thanks,

-John

Hi TJ

Thanks and your skills with cameras should be in the record books (which they probably are).

It makes going to shows even more thrilling when one can see so many superb angles (thanks to you professionals) of aircraft one has only seen in one viewing angle usually depending on where one is at the show.

Thanks for the URLS and I hope you get to Leuchars on Saturday.

Kind regards

Jay

TJ

Hi

I was talking to a current Eurofighter Typhoon pilot at Duxford on Sunday 07 Septmber who was waiting to take up a Spitfire.

He reliably told me that Matt Elliot had left flying Eurofighter Typhoons and had joined BA.

The other jem he told me was that they had a new routine going where a Eurofighter and Spitfire were doing joint appearances at some air shows and he thought Leuchars was going to be the next.

In doing this joint appearance supposedly the Spitfire does a unique/traditional ‘Spitfire’ rolling manouvre and the Eurofighter does similarly as a tribute to the Spitfire and also portraying two great British aircraft (Eurofighter being not purely British ofcourse).

Is this what you saw or got the impression of was happening when you took these great shots ?

Cheers

Jay

Thanks for the comments.

You can see the display at the following. – Waddington 2008.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-e_DsgHfI

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1UmMOe4zw

Cheers

TJ

Unusual to see the tailwheel locked down on a BBMF MK.XIX

the Eurofighter does similarly as a tribute to the Spitfire and also portraying two great British aircraft (Eurofighter being not purely British ofcourse).

Jay

Well to me I think the Eurofighter typhoon is British after this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_EAP and built under license:cool: Nice shots there like the first shot 😎 I like the typhoon a fantastic plane I like it went it has its afterburnes going noise b*gger 😀

James

TJ

Hi

I was talking to a current Eurofighter Typhoon pilot at Duxford on Sunday 07 Septmber who was waiting to take up a Spitfire.

He reliably told me that Matt Elliot had left flying Eurofighter Typhoons and had joined BA.

The other jem he told me was that they had a new routine going where a Eurofighter and Spitfire were doing joint appearances at some air shows and he thought Leuchars was going to be the next.

In doing this joint appearance supposedly the Spitfire does a unique/traditional ‘Spitfire’ rolling manouvre and the Eurofighter does similarly as a tribute to the Spitfire and also portraying two great British aircraft (Eurofighter being not purely British ofcourse).

Is this what you saw or got the impression of was happening when you took these great shots ?

Cheers

Jay

Thanks.

The Spitfire in your video is probably one of the BBMF Mk PRXIXs, as previously suggested in the video thread. The aircraft in my image is serial PM631.

http://www.bbmf.co.uk/fighters.html

TJ

Is this the same Spitfire that flew with the Red Arrows in the flypast on my thread “Spitfire with the Reds”? Is it the fastest spit flying?

Nice Pics! Looks like the Typhoon was just idling along…doing what, about 200knots? Often hard for the fast movers to hang with the heritage airframes and fly in close formation.