Buzzed by Spitfire!

Have just been roused by the sound of a Merlin engine on full song.
Needless to say I belted outside to see what was making such a wonderful sound and spied a Spitfire, with D-Day markings, buzz Diss town twice, then head NNWest.
The pilot did a very steep climb and bank at the end of their first pass to come back over again.
The noise of a Merlin engine being worked hard is music to the ears..

Geoff - Busy morning at Banham Carboot with GD, who is 2.1/2yrs old, in charge.

Just had a telephone call interrupted by the racket made by 4 Merlins attached to the front end of a Lancaster going over our house...I am sure that they could find another route back to Coningsby !

Mick

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THIS is 'buzzed' by a Spitfire.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDDDKnNhuE

Nick 

Edited By Nick_G on 01/06/2014 18:30:56

I live about four miles from the Shuttleworth Collection and Duxford is approx twenty five miles ESE of me and Little Gransden is about twenty miles NE of me so there is always something passing over the house or waiting its turn to go and display at Shuttleworth.

Martin P

Imagine the noise when 1000 of the heavies were assembling over southern England before setting off over the Channel to call on some annoying neighbors.

Once saw two Spittys chasing an Me 109 at low level over Brentford in 1987. GF's father told me a movie was being filmed nearby. Pretty thrilling at the time though.

My dad was one of the 'Crazy Polish pilots' who flew a Wellington and survived otherwise I would not be here to tell you about this.

Regards * Danny M *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 01/06/2014 20:41:35

Danny,

That film you reffered to was The Battle of Britain, the ME109 was a Spanish version with a Merlin engine fitted, a lot of the filming was done mostly in East Anglia and I went about every day with a camera with a long lens on my passenger seat.

Just a a blinding flash BoB was made in 1969 now I'm curious what the film was

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 01/06/2014 20:48:23

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That would be the Eric's

I was 7 years old on D Day, at 0400 I was woken by the noise of all the bombers going South. Dawn was just breaking and I watched from East west and South and North and there was not a piece of sky without an aircraft.

The next morning at about 0300 a US bomber crashed about 200 yards from our hose, unfortunately all were killed. We were still finding bits of it several years later. 2 of them collided, the other crashed in Rochester I believe.

Prior to D Day lots of Army units tracked through the Kent lanes, as kids, they gave us chocolate and biscuits, quite welcome as I was always hungry. My Father went over on the 3rd day as he was in a Bofors Ack Ack unit, he stopped on the A2 to speak to us and I did not see him again until 1947.

We had an Airedale dog and he would get up and go under the table and Mother would say, 'Join him' as he would hear the German bombers long before the sirens went off.

Clive

Edited By WALLACE on 01/06/2014 21:24:57

Probably the TV version of "A piece of cake". The film, like the book, was somewhat controversial in that it suggested that not all of the few were jolly good chaps. Well worth a read.

Rod

The war film made in 1987 was Hope and Glory and was pretty good.

Over the next few months some of you will probably see some WW1 fighters flying around Britain, they left in containers a couple of months ago from Sir Peter Jackson's collection, so you might hear the sound of a rotary engine Sopworth Pup or similar. Ian S C

Thanks for all the PMs and photos. Magic!

iPlayer BBC2 yesterday at 2100h/9pm.

'Britain's Greatest Pilot - The Extraordinary Story of Captain 'Winkie' Brown'

Talk about nine lives, he certainly beat the odds.

Watched it last night whilst recovering from day out with GD. Did I ever have such energy!?

2.1/2years old, and her first session on a bouncy castle and loved it.

Geoff - Just about recovered. Rooibos will help

I was once on holiday in the IoM and monitoring the Ronaldsway control tower frequency on my scanner radio from a hilltop. Out of the blue, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight called in, said they were transiting back to Lincolnshire after an air show in Northern Ireland, and would they like a flypast? Would they??? So I watched the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane do a few circuits of the airfield, to the distant sound of six Merlins, even from a few miles away. There wasn't time to get to the airport.

Geoff

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Take a read of this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27637906

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27637906

Edited By John Stevenson on 02/06/2014 13:38:21

When the The Battle of Britain was being filmed at Duxford where a lot of the filming was based.

The motorbike sprinters used Duxford but we were transferred to RAF Bassingbourn when the filming was on we had glances of the air action and sounds of gunfire.

Paul

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Geoff [and Paul]

This might make an amusing alternative to a Spitfire

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MichaelG.

Riding my motorbike through the glen, no other traffic, beautiful peaceful day. RAF Tornado crept up behind, overtook (literally) and carried on along the road about 50 feet above. Bit noisier than a Spit and evocative only of a change of underwear.