You mean a current Hurricane or Spitfire pilot is flying a machine that is so safe and easy to fly that there is no possibility of it being damaged? Thats not really the case. Far from it in fact.
Correct Daz, it really is where you live (or are prepared to regularly travel to) that counts. I have had to make two major moves in the past fifteen years to keep up with historic aircraft. Living next to North Weald and only 30 minutes from Duxford suits me fine at the moment.
This cannot be for real. I have never seen such utter dross. The take off video with the aircraft absent from the screen for most of the time, shaky focus and the repetition of a Merlin take-off sound track that has no conection with the image have to be seen to be believed. If these people are serious then they have a lot to learn.
I am sure everyone on this forum would agree that your film of NX611 in the late 1960’s is a very precious historic record. I would would love to see it and if the video producers have any sense whatsoever they will recognise this and wish to include it on their next edition
Very interesting information. Any idea when the first post war use of gloss paint was – not immediately after the end of hostilities but gradually introduced from the Seafire 17 (half Extra Dark Sea Grey/half Sky) onwards perhaps?
They look like the ones that were given away by, I think, Corn Flakes in about 1990 to celebrate the BofB anniversary! It was one of those offers where you had to collect tokens rather than have a Hurricane fall in to your bowl of milk.
I grew up in a relativley aviation free area (The Wirral) but if your parents took you for a day out on the nearby N Wales coast in the early seventies you would be driven past RAF Sealand and a certain Spitfire. I blame TD248 for a lasting obsession! (I think the photo of me below was taken in about 1973)
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