They’d also have to change all the codes on every other shot as well, but would have been nice to get that right, don’t think the lost in bad weather scene is quite as powerful as the passage in the book which really does impress the loneliness of the sortie but trying to compress a very well written book into 80 minutes can’t be easy.

Stringfellow proved that steam and flight don’t really go together, hours stood in cold wet fields in January waiting for some lump of metal to go past when I’d rather be anywhere else put me off for life, at least at airshows you get to see plenty of aircraft at any one time and the weather in generally tolerable.:dev2:

And under the current government those responsible for such wanton destruction and vandalism won’t even get an ASBO.

How about if we just use the term ‘Spitfire’ to refer to any Second World War aircraft

But remember if it is multi-engined it has to be a Lanc and if it is a jet then the Red Arrows normally does, don’t know about choppers though, that is just too confusing but there aren’t too many of those so don’t need to worry about it!

This would have been while in Spencer Flack’s ownership, flying from Elstree.

I’d be surprised if it was flying from Elstree down to Somerset on a regular basis, definitely based at Yeovilton, the pilot at the time would have lived just outside Ilminster which is near Merryfield

I’m a bit young to really remember anything clearly from the 70s’ (showing my youth now) and remember that the pilot lived just outside my home town so would regularly practice aerobatics. I wish I could accurately date it but can’t.

Is this the Fury that used to fly from Yeovilton with ‘D Day’ style stripes on the wings that I remember watching on many a school day when I should have been fielding in the 80s or I remember somewhere hearing it had been written off, sorry for the slight thread drift?

wow who is this guy, be nice if he popped by here once in a while and kept us informed of what he’s up to next.