Eagle Squadron Crew talk about the legendary Spitfire

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This 6 minute film featuring the Flying Legends Spitfire tailchase and in-cockpit footage includes interviews with US Eagle Squadron Pilot "Bill" Edwards and Ted Hayes who was ground crew. They talk about the Spitfire and what it meant to them, there's also an interview with modern day Spitfire Pilot Charlie Brown. Watch More films like this at WingsTV.co.uk

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@Nibby12 2 года назад

I read a book once, when I was a kid, about Bob Tuck and he mentioned a conversation with his Squadron mates about a new type being introduced, called Spitfire and they wondered if anything would become of it, or would it be "just another fly by nighter!"

@calvinhobbes1617 2 года назад

I am surprised how many planes still are in good shape for flying. I doubt you find such a lot of Bf109s or FW190s. Nice video.

@guywilloughby3383 3 года назад

I noticed in the lineup of Spitfires one of them had a dual propeller? I know this was on the spiteful which replaced the Spitfire but never really went in the service so I'm wondering how on Earth there was a one in the display?

@JohnyG29 3 года назад

Some late model Spitfires and Seafires used contra-rotating propellers. This is not a Spiteful as that aircraft had a very different wing.

@dm8994 2 года назад

They installed 6 blade contra-rotating propellers on griffon engine spitfires so more of the power could be absorbed by the six blades. But they were harder to maintain so were not installed in big numbers. Instead, they used the 5-blade propellers with griffon engines.

@MarsFKA 4 года назад

3:55 "A symphony of Merlins and Griffon engines." In New Zealand, we are privileged to hear that every two years at the Classic Fighters Omaka air shows, where two Mark IXs and the Mark XIV come out to play. The Mark XIV is based at Omaka and, as I learned at the last CFO, for insurance reasons, displays nowhere else in the country - I read that it is valued at $NZ 4 million, so the insurance premiums will be steep enough, but when it is flying, they must go through the roof. The longest flight it has made since it crashed at Wanaka in January 1996 was on the Friday of CFO 2015, when, after finally being restored to flight condition at Ardmore, south of Auckland, it flew down to Omaka, arriving in the late afternoon. So, when we walked in the gate on Saturday morning, we saw *three* Spitfires lined up: something that had not been seen in the Southern Hemisphere for sixty years.

@H4CK61 3 года назад

Here in Kent south east England we see them every day BEAUTIFUL.

@Nimgimmer1492 4 года назад

A great aircraft and video work. Thanks.

@KevTheImpaler 3 года назад

That thinner, older man must have been one of the ground crew.

@JG-ib7xk 3 года назад

Given it says Ground Crew when he's first introduced, i'd say yes

@killingfields1424 4 года назад

MK I to MK V are underpowered and spend more time beaten by Me 109. Things change when MK IX came. Its so powerful that surprises the Me 109 pilots as loses came to them all the way till the end of the war with better more powerful Griffon engine Spitfires

@MarsFKA 4 года назад

The Spitfire could always hold its own with the BF109 and in some circumstances was superior. The game changer for the Mark V Spitfire pilots was the appearance of the FW190, which changed the balance dramatically. Parity was restored with the upgrade of the Mark V to Mark IX by fitting the more powerful Merlin 60/70 series engines. The Mark VIII was the intended replacement for the Mark V, but, with the design changes, it was effectively a new aircraft and would take time to come online, so fitting the Merlin 61 to the Mark V to create the Mark IX was a stop-gap measure that turned out to be very successful.

@tempestmkiv 4 года назад

You have no idea what you're talking about.

@JohnyG29 3 года назад

Contempory early Me109 and Spitfire variants were typically equally matched. It was the introduction of the FW190 in late '41 which gave the Germans an edge until the Spitfire MkIX was introduced in early '42. Later war Spits did typically have an edge over late war Me109s.

@JG-ib7xk 3 года назад

You sound exactly like someone who doesn't know anything about what you're talking about. German pilot's diaries are freely available read in the German National Archive, and they ALL say the opposite to the rubbish you're coming out with. I'd rather believe the actual Luftwaffe pilots than some idiot who doesnt know what he's on about.