Interesting video, illustrates even better than the stills the violence of the impacts. Hard to tell from the angle but he must have had a nasty few seconds when it looked like he might have gone into that flight line of exec jets & trainers !

I wonder if the wing dig in was as a result of trying to steer the aircraft away from that flightline?

Roger Smith.

…….”Never (NEVER!!!!) part with your money until you’re at the airfield. If the company goes down the tubes, you’ll lose it”…….

But surely if you book in advance and pay by credit card you are protected?

Roger Smith

…………..Similarly, though we are yet to see it, will we learn any more about the battle from ‘Obi Wan Kenobi’ flying in a 2 seat Spitfire, that we couldnt have learnt from repeats of programmes from 10 or 20 years ago. I suspect not…………..Bruce

Education through entertainment. We often lament lack of knowledge of our aviation history amongst our young people and, whilst I’m against ‘dumbing down’, this kind of thing can surely help.

I would think that a programme about the Battle of Britain will be more acceptable to today’s youngsters with him (a film star they recognise and can associate themselves with) than without. I reckon it could well make the difference between them watching it and not watching it.

Roger Smith.

No mention of a price/prices – can you give us a clue??

Roger Smith.

Was watching the arrival (on tv) of the Pope’s aircraft (modern 2-engined thingey with windows) and was interested to see, first, a union jack appear outside the cockpit then (eventually), on the other side, a Papal flag.

When the camera zoomed in you could just make out the brackets fitting the flag to the window frame. I wondered if they were an official manufacturer’s piece of equipment or something a fitter had knocked up at Alitalia’s workshops?

Sorry, not very historic 🙂

Roger Smith.

Thanks for posting – great pictures. Looking forward to seeing more.

Roger Smith.

Was there a submarine named HMS Spitfire???

Roger Smith