Wasn’t that supposed to be the same action that P-47 pilots were encouraged to undertake twenty-odd years earlier?!

Corrosion control?

Did they have a good look? That Belvedere probably has three Spitfires in the boot/trunk and another one in the glove box!

If you’ve written about doing something and have opinions…well, that’s okay. If you’ve done it and have opinions….you’re a blowhard.
:D:diablo::):dev2:

Nah, not at all. If you turn up, write condescending posts, belittle people and talk in a manner that assumes that everyone else is an ill-informed moron, then you’re a blowhard. I know people with thousands of hours of flying experience, who treat people with respect. I’ve also encountered people with plenty of experience who treat people with contempt and condescension. The latter type lose my respect. Not that I expect my respect is of importance to Mister Experience here.

I also think that Mister Mono-plane is big and strong enough that my lack of respect isn’t going to make him lose sleep at night. I’m not losing sleep either, as a disagreement on a discussion forum doesn’t mean much. I’ll happily sleep and dream of ‘wolfpacks’ and ‘convoys’. 😉 In real life, the original poster may be a top bloke. His online persona doesn’t reflect that, though. So, my comments reflect what I’ve read from an online screen-name, and I have no disrespect to whomever is behind it. He may be a good bloke, but his words read poorly.

Oh, and I’m an Aussie, not a Pom. 🙂

Cheers,
Matt

Ultimate? Granted, they looked fabulous, but what did they achieve other than going fast for a little while until they disappeared into obscurity?

G’day there Mono-plane,

…”Wolfpacks”…”convoys”…

Thanks for the insights, I’m sure nobody here was aware of such fundamental facts of military history. Along with your acidic Snausages story, you’ve educated so many of us in the basics. For this, I humbly thank you.

Oh, and thank you for pointing out the glorious superiority of pretty-much everything over the Spitfire. It does lend to giggles, given that the Mustang wouldn’t have existed without the British Purchasing Commission, and it wouldn’t have been first-rate without the Rolls-Royce Merlin, I wouldn’t be going out to dinner on it just yet.

😉

Cheers,
Matt

One day when i was about nine, my dad took a detour past our local air museum. He pulled up out the front and I jumped out, almost before the car had pulled to a stop. I ran over to the chain-link fence, pressing my face up against the wire to take in the goodies beyond! About half-way down the compound, facing the gate, was the familiar shape. I yelled out “Dad, it’s a Spitfire” and ran past the entrance shed, to the corner then down the fence towards the aeroplane. I wanted to see it side-on, in all its glory!

Fairey Firefly.

Not sure when I saw my first Spit. I think it was Col Pay’s Mk VIII, MV239/A58-758/VH-HET, sometime in the late-80s. I was able to recognise one properly by then!

Cheers,
Matt

I still well-remember the issue of Flypast which covered the post-closure sale. I seem to recall that the Hurricane sold for something like 260,000 quid.

Cheers,
Matt