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Summer 1994 I saw Charly Brown's Spitfire at General Aviation FMO Airport near Münster/Germany. Immediately I took 1 of our planes and rolled to the other side of our Airport FMO to see the Spitfire from nearbij. Unfortunately I had no camera to make a lot of photos. A few minutes and a pilot in a typical WWII brown pilot overal with leather hat and a big white moustache. It was like being in a timetunnel to 1940...so real. He was greeting me and my girlfriend stepped into his Spitfire and started the engine. Fire came out of the exhausts...indeed Spitfire...!!! With a last salutation he rolled to the runway 25 and with lots of noise he flew away. 👌😄💪👍😊🇪🇦
what i find facanating is these planes were produced in the war period at a rate of one or two a day, yet they take multiple years to restore! i would like to ask the guy, are these planes built now to a higher standard now, or were they the same buils quality as when the rolled off the production line.
Having watched this update video, I wonder why the restorers chose to finish the aircraft in 403 Squadron colours (10:00) and markings instead of 443 Squadron? MJ444 flew with 411 Sqn starting 21 Sep 44, was transferred to 403 Sqn 14 Oct 44, and then to 443 Sqn on 14 Dec 44. Flt Lt Fairfield of 443 Sqn bailed out 13 Jan 45 after being hit by flak near St. Vith. It seems to me that it would have made more sense to finish the Spit in 443 colours. JJ McManus ex-CO 443 Sqn
Soldering in itself is an art and takes months if not years to master properly and to keep uniform......a good flowing line should look almost like the stick of solder your using!
THIS is why l adore you tube .......even 10 years past you would never had the priledge to have been a witness to this epic rebuild. I loved the typical humour of the incorrect "rivet " ......thankyou "gentlemen" ....expressed with the same British humour .......😂
What Mark Spit is this converted from? The radiators suggest a Mk9 but another Aero Legends video says she's getting a single stage Merlin. And of course MH434 is a Mk9
In 4 years I'll be 50 and Im saving up for 30 min in a Spitfire. Been my dream since I saw a " dogfight" between a Spitfire and a Bf 109 at an airshow in Norway 6 years old MJ is my initials 😊
Quality of the build is impressive. My former neighbour flew Spitfires from 1941 onwards and always said today’s aircraft were infinitely better built!
@@noseyparker6622 Childish? It was an honest factual comment. The work is of a high standard, therefore it's nice (if you ignore the ugly 2nd cockpit). And it's a brand new aircraft - not the aircraft shot down in WW2 - therefore a replica which has been built to carry passengers and make money. Go and look at MH434 if you want to see a genuine spitfire, or most of the BBMF aircraft. Sorry if that upsets you.
Spending several years & thousands of hours restoring this product , when originally they were made in hours . It being like spending millions and decades on a Ford model T that were produced every 30 seconds !
Yep, they were mass produced, albeit to very high standards, for war. Production lines set up with a large skilled workforce, as opposed to a small bespoke company. They were designed to last a short service life. Now of course, they must comply with incredible and rigorous regulation and need to last forever. The standard of craftsmanship and skill is breathtaking and makes them living works of art. All aircraft have a heart and soul, but perhaps few as overwhelmingly powerful and beautiful as a Spitfire. You can sense the individual personality of this aircraft growing as she nears completion. Truly wonderful.😊
Correction- models T’s left the factory every 30’s at peak production. Actual man hours going into each car were magnitudes higher. Many, many men involved from toolmakers to production line engineers to the foundries and the mechanic themselves not to mention the sub trades such as upholstery and electrics. The genius of production line manufacturing is to compress all these different time and energy inputs.
No rush to get the job done making sure every thing is done right and yet in WW2 they had to be quick to make them to stop Nazi aggression and about 23000 where built. The Merlin engine had 11000 parts and in Trafford park, Manchester, Ford motors during the war built 34000 Merlin's.
Yesterday, I watched the 1969 movie, "The Battle of Britain" and today as I looked through youtube, I found your series of rebuilding Spitfire MJ444. So, I had to go back to the beginning and watch every video. The RAF used many types of planes during WW-II. The Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, and the Lancaster are the four that come to mind. The beginning of this video, we a quick glimpse of the hangers, they are just like the one that was destroyed in the movie. If fact, the hanger destroyed in the movie was an original hanger that was in bad condition, and it was used in the film. I'd love to have a flight in MJ444 when it's finished, but I'm across the pond in the US, and I doubt I will have the chance. But I subscribed and I'll be happy to see it fly again.
I fly model aircraft and whenever I get to fly a "Spit" I can only marvel at the grace and beauty.... it is like an E type jaguar, Timeless perfection , best wishes Rachael P
Is the extra cockpit for fare paying passengers? The funds are very necessary to keep a machine like that in the air otherwise it probably wouldn't exist at all!
