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A friend of mine sent me this clip of the Spitfires and Hurricanes at the 2010 Battle of Britain airshow at Duxford.

No doubt several of you were there.

For those that couldn't be there.. Enjoy!

F.B

http://www.airshows.org.uk/2010/airshow ... eview.html

Great link. Thanks.

Filton Boy.

Nice video that,pics were so clear,nice to see 16 spits up in the air,just like a beautiful woman,once seen,never forgotten.

BTW,i was speaking to a 76 yr old bloke yesterday,who remembers his dad taking him to see a spit which had come down near Rolls Royce in the BOB in Bristol(he was 5yrs old then)the spit was upended on it's nose,and was guarded by a RAF bloke,and his dad said,the pilot had probably mistaken the buildings for the runway,apparently it had landed near Gipsy Patch lane.
I wonder if there are any records of it?

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Hello Marine,
Sorry I have not replied earlier but real life got me in his sights for a while but I have ducked into a cloud and shaken him off for a bit.

I have not heard of a Spit crashing near Gypsy Patch Lane. The only WW2 aircraft I have heard of is a ME110 shot down over Failand in September 1940 and a Wellington bomber that crash landed in St. Andrews park later in the war (quite a feat if you know how small the park is and how it is surrounded by houses).

I doubt that the newspapers in the Bristol records office would help because it would have been sensitive information. I believe it was 501 squadron at Filton for a time during BOB.

My late mother in law was a nine year old child living across the road from the airfield in Filton Avenue during BOB and although she mentioned the air raid shelter taking a direct hit and killing many aircraft factory workers, she never mentioned a Spit coming down. Neither did my Dad who was 19 and about to go into the RAF at this time, although he did relate the story of the ME110. Perhaps we only reported enemy aircraft downed and swept our own losses under the carpet a bit.

Would be interesting to find out though.

F.B.

Filton Boy
No problem my friend,RL does tend to knock you down when you least expect it,but i'm glad you are okay now.
Thanks for inquiring about that spit,i think you are right in saying they only probably reported enemy planes being shot down,not to disturb the peoples moral.

The reason the bloke told me about the spit is,because he came up to my house to buy a golf buggy off me,(i play golf at Bristol golf club)i invited him into my house as you do,and he saw the spit i flew in on my PC,which is my desktop picture,one thing led to another,and he was here for over an hour,he was more interested in talking about spits,than he was about the golf buggy

So it came down to looking at the Sim of BOB,he couldn't believe how realistic it is,couldn't take the flipping joystick out of his hand,as he got carried away so much in trying to land the spit,he was like a Kamikaze pilot,crashed everytime,but he loved it.
He is now going to show his Son about the Sim as he is into planes as well.

Pity i didn't get more info off him about the spit,but i guess being only 5 yrs old then,he wouldn't have been able to tell me anymore about it.I remember those times when the kids loved playing with wooden spitfires,they would have bitten your hand off to have been offered one Crazy days they were.

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Hello marine,

Looks like we will have a couple of new rookie pilots on the sim!

Just goes to show what a good sim it still is. I still feel like an eleven year old building airfix kits every time I fly it.

cheers

F.B.

P.S. Sorry about the mistake in the thread title. Of course it should read 16 spits not i6 spits.