Any Battle of Britain enthusiasts?

[RogerS]

You probably know this already but looks as if Duxford are having a superb flying weekend 4/5 Sept - 16 (sixteen!!) flying Spitfires amongst other aircraft. If they have all sixteen fly past in formation then that will be awesome.

 

[Digit]

Enthusiast? Not that you'd notice! :lol:
From as early as I can remember I wanted to fly with the Royal Air Force and until recently I had a large library of RAF histories etc.
Watched the Battle of Britain, the Dam Busters, Reach for the Sky etc numerous times.
Pure nostalgia of course.

Roy.

 

[RogerS]

That jammy sod, Evan Davies, got to fly in the two-seater Spitfire for Radio 4.

 

[Steve Jones]

There's also a Battle of Britain weekend in Gloucs on the 18th & 19th of September

http://www.battleofbritainairshow.com/

Regards

Steve

 

[Chems]

Saw the Grace spitfire at Althorp House last weekend, it was really something.

 

[Digit]

My family tried to book me a flight on the two seater for my 60th birthday. I thought the price was an offer to purchase!

Roy.

 

[Anonymous]

i saw the vulcan bomber in flight when i was playing rugby against solihul, nearly killed me it did (had the ball and stood still mesmerised by the beauty of thing and got tackled by a prop so hard it juddered my entire body)

 

[Digit]

I was at the Farnborough air show one year Mark when the pilot looped the damn thing! Impressive? I'll say!

Roy.

 

[kmcleod]

I saw the vulcan do its last airshow display at North Weald.

Because Stansted is so close they chose to do a rocket assit scamble take of.

The entire airflield was shaking then this monster tore of down the runway, rotated and went vertical !

the speed it was going you would have thought it was a fighter, not a ruddy great bomber,,

But it truly was a thing of beauty to watch and the crowd did go nuts afterwards...

 

[Digit]

It was, and is, a very graceful aircraft IMO.

Roy.

 

[Anonymous]

looped it? but she is massive, the vulcan the most amazing thing i have seen in flight.

I was privy to an airshow when i was about 13 when i was in the army cadets and was away with them in salisbury.

We watched a demonstration of laser guided missiles, we watched the infantry laser an old tank, then 2 tornadoes flew over and bombed it, it was truly truly impressive.

I reckon all kids should be made to join the cadets for 2 years it taught me to repect my elders and those more senior to me and how to iron a shirt and polish my boots.

 

[Digit]

I can't open this myself Mark as broadband here is so slow at this time of the day, but it may give you some info.

http://www.squidoo.com/avrovulcan

Roy.

 

[RogerS]

I was at the Farnborough air show one year Mark when the pilot looped the damn thing! Impressive? I'll say!

Roy.

here's it doing a roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4r0Kk-xX4o

 

[Digit]

Will you please stop doing that Rog! I'll have to sit here till 2am to be able to view it you swine!

Roy.

 

[JonnyD]

The Battle of Britain is stationed only about 10 miles from my workshop so we often see them flying over. My grandad worked on the lancasters throughout the war so for his 90th we are treating him to a ride here http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/ only a taxi run but should bring back some memories.

cheers

jon

 

[lanemaux]

In Canada there are loads of Battle of Britain enthousiasts . Most of us were at one time called air cadets. 180 Mosquito squadron and then a stint as reservist. Was not an entirely selfless thing either. great amigos ,terrific times and great opps for learning. I would never have been able to afford private pilots licence or travel or glider pilots licence had I not cut my hair and shone my shoes for once or twice a week for parades and other duties. Best damn deal a kid could have. Strangely the squadrons are having trouble finding kids to join up... am I missing a point somewhere? Seems win , win and so forth to me.
Mike

 

[devonwoody]

I witnessed the real thing from the bedroom window, I was only an infant when this commenced but I still have the memories of those bad nights in London, searchlights, tracers, and the bombs that landed just far enough away from that window which must be obvious by my statements above.

Thanks to all those past and present for my wellbeing.

 

[bugbear]

I saw the vulcan do its last airshow display at North Weald.

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It was at the Lowestoft airshow last week!

BugBear

 

[kmcleod]

The one at Lowestoft is the restored Vulcan.

The one I saw was the last RAF vulcan to fly, it did the show at North Weald, returned to its base and I beleive it, the squandron and the base were all retired the next day.

I'm really glad that someone has stuck with the Vulcan restoration, and that it should be flying airshows pretty soon.

 

[Digit]

There's a WW2 airfield one mile from me Mike and some time ago they advertised for people willing to become gliding instructers. All free of charge!
I couldn't believe it, then I read the rest of the ad, I was too old!
It was closed down, NO TAKERS!!!!!

Roy.