Omegafanman
·I made it to Duxford UK IWM with my 6B/159 for the 19 Squadron heroes Spitfire celebration day this week. 19 Squadron received the first active service spitfire in 1938.
A lot of the aircraft in these pictures saw action in the battle of Britain. One of the hurricane pilots was very accommodating and pulled up on the edge of the ramp, so for a Spitfire Day I took a lot of Hurricane shots. I had good chat with him and interestingly he wears a modern Laco flieger watch which he said had good legibility as a tool watch for his job which makes sense. In terms of re-enactment, he likes to say it was from a captured pilot he shot down…although the Hurricane he was flying actually got shot down by a Messerschmitt in 1940 and returned to the sky after restoration in 2018. Anyway, it was a great day and the museum is well worth a visit. You could go for a week and still not see everything. Also great to hear the Merlin engine..and great to keep the memory of those young men and the sacrifices they made alive.
The display was filmed for YouTube as well…
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Plenty of oil trays in the photos around so hats off to the modern pilots and ground crews that keep these birds in the air as well.
Have a good weekend everyone.
A lot of the aircraft in these pictures saw action in the battle of Britain. One of the hurricane pilots was very accommodating and pulled up on the edge of the ramp, so for a Spitfire Day I took a lot of Hurricane shots. I had good chat with him and interestingly he wears a modern Laco flieger watch which he said had good legibility as a tool watch for his job which makes sense. In terms of re-enactment, he likes to say it was from a captured pilot he shot down…although the Hurricane he was flying actually got shot down by a Messerschmitt in 1940 and returned to the sky after restoration in 2018. Anyway, it was a great day and the museum is well worth a visit. You could go for a week and still not see everything. Also great to hear the Merlin engine..and great to keep the memory of those young men and the sacrifices they made alive.
The display was filmed for YouTube as well…
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Plenty of oil trays in the photos around so hats off to the modern pilots and ground crews that keep these birds in the air as well.
Have a good weekend everyone.