Almost 8 minutes of no comments, no commentary, *no damned muzak* and no need wish or desire for any of it, just the glorious sounds of a gorgeous bird in its natural habitat! Thank you for sharing your sensibilities with the rest of us :-)
I really like the procedural discipline shown by both the pilot and ground crew. Flying such a unique and beautiful warbird is a tremendous responsibility.
Well said 100% agree. Sort of like a wooden roller coaster vs a modern steel rail coaster. The steel may be faster, but I'll take the wooden one any day - the feel is entirely Different
@@Phoenix_cataclysm_in_2040 Um...that's probably £2.2M *each*. As a guideline, the Mark XIV in New Zealand is valued at NZ$4M, which, at this moment, translates to £2M.
My heart wants to leap out of my chest, I cannot breath....and I shed a small tear for the brave lads that flew these beasts....That is the Brit in me.
That whistle makes the hair stand up on my neck and back - a child of the 60s who's still proud to be a TRUE BRIT and proud of what our forefathers achieved!!!!!!! God love 'em!!!!!!!!
actually twin turbochargers .. one feeding the other with highley compressed air hence the need tor the second radiator on the port wing " compessed air is hot" ..not good for the engine! hence radiators..
Twenty odd years ago I was working at Lakenheath air base and rapidly got use to f15 and 16's pulling off the most amazing stunts above my head, usually with bits falling off them. Those boys could bring those things to a virtual halt in the air slewing them around just holding them up with the sheer power of those mighty jets. Impressive yes but not a patch on a spit that flew over my head one day as I walked my dogs. At about one hundred feet this old plane hammered past me flat out in the direction of Shipdham air field one of those wonderful sights you never forget.
Amazing and incredible to see any WW2 aircraft flying these days considering maintenance,insurances,fuel let alone all the bureaucracy. Rob Davis lucky dog I mean chap.😉👍👍
The sooner the UK moves on from spitfires and Dunkirk etc the better. Nobody else cares. Stop looking back and look to the future. This stuff is history
Lovely to see it side by side with the ME109 they had a great sound as well, I can remember Black 6 flying at Duxford before it was stuck in a shed Never to be heard again,
The griffon has such a distinctive sound!! Love that little stutter that it does!! Its kinda like hearing a drag car with a hopped up cam... love love love the Griffon!!!
Most beautiful looking, most beautiful sounding and most beautiful to fly according to many pilot accounts I have read and heard of. Spitfire will always be iconic and symbolic of times gone by for many reasons. Thank you Supermarine and Reginald Mitchell.
For the RAF identity on the wings the white band was not used as it was easily spotted by the enemy and also would reflect in the sunlight. Only the red and blue bands were insigned.
If your desire is to fly in the finest aeroplane that ever existed, and my desire is exactly that, then....there can never be another. The Supermarine Spitfire.
Absolutely fantastic video! A great combination of closeup and far away shots, and seeing that shape gracing the sky just brings me goosebumps. Thank you for the video!
If you ever get the chance to see one of these engines fired up on it's own do it. I watched one that was fitted to a trailer at the Heddington and Stockley fair. It had a chopped down prop and a nutty bloke sitting on a stool behind it. To start with there were old couples,young couples,children,pet dogs and assorted fair type animals, horse,pigs,sheep etc. Within 10 seconds of putting the revs up to half it was only the dads and teenagers left,everyone else had either ran away or were hiding in tents,dogs were dragging owners away and a horse escaped its stable. I just stood there in total awe as my intestines vibrated with such force I thought I was having an issue but with a cheshire smile. Nothing is as violent or as aggressive a noise than that from a Griffin V12, apart from 20 taking of at the same time or whole flights of Lancaster's.
A Mark XIV is based at Omaka and comes out to play at the Classic Fighters Omaka air shows every two years and I'm here to watch and listen. Man, that Griffon! I can't get enough of this.
I found this video a year late. Crikey, the noise, the noise! On the ground, the Spit looks a bit like a swan with outspread wings. In the air, it looks like it's saying "Don't mess with me, you'll lose." And it was right. Love it, thank you.
As soon as lockdown is over I am off on pilgrimage around England to as many aircraft,tank,train, motorcycle and engineering musuems and soak up what we had and were world beaters in,
Eh, when it started the props were pulling it forward onto the chocks and the entire plane pivoted on the axles of the wheels bringing the tail up and nose down, most engine start videos with a chocked plane you get the same effect.