Thank you for your concise answer Mark and a very philosophical outlook on the whole thing. At least you’ve done it and good to do the tailwheel check out as well. Bet the 5 hour flight with Bill Greenwood to Oshkosh will be an everlasting memory. Good for you.
Looking at the videos it appears that the Spitfire was running for quite a while on the ground before take off so perhaps the pilot wanted to get her airborne as quickly as possible to avoid boiling and that’s why he fed in the power so quickly and got the tail up early then it all went a bit **** up.
I am quite amazed how the wings seem to have bent up into much more dihedral after it went over or is that an optical illusion? The accident all seemed to snowball very quickly glad pilot ok, any news on the woman?
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