We had a Spitfire on a static display podium at the entrance of our Base. We would salute it upon entering, ignoring Officers - we had our priorities organised.
The only thing more incredible than this song is that I’ve only just discovered it in 2021. I have no idea how I have managed to never even have heard of these chaps, but at least Spotify worked out that I needed to hear it by recommending it to me.
Same for me. I heard it in a bar in Auckland NZ late in ‘21. Still cant stop playing it. Im old and maybe a bit jaded and it takes a lot to hear a new tune that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up now as I have listened to so much music in my time. Absolute brilliance.
@@darkdante23 Didn't have to be posh to fly in the RAF in WW2. My second cousin flew and he was a back street Brummie. If you were young, had the cojones, and were good at your job, you were in.
Due to this track, any time I hear the word Spitfire I have to say “a Spitfire bird” out loud in a posh voice. I have a feeling this will continue until the day I die
Only heard of this band yesterday and cant stop listening. I wondered what their videos would be like and after flicking through youtube i can say they are exactly what i wanted them to be like.
NOTHING makes me more proud to be British than this song. Gives me goosebumps every single time. Makes me think of my grandad who was obsessed with spitfires.
A Great British film - The First Of The Few. A Great British plane - The Spitfire. Great British (and our Allies) spirit - The Pilots. A Great British band - PSB. Seen these guys live and they are brilliant, so clever!
Excellent shivers down my spine. The Spit is 1 of those things that makes all of us Brits feel proud of our past. This was their finest hour, thank God for the few regardless of nationality,heroes all
Only just arrived at the PSB party. Feel like I have known them forever. Mindblowing music and sentiments. Every track an emotion that is felt rather than heard.
The sound of a merlin at full chat should be the national anthem, or used for the British citizenship test - no raised hair on the back of the neck, no passport! 😁
Ten and more years ago I was fortunate enough to learn to fly at Biggin Hill, and I shall always remember the late summer day when I was doing pre-flight checks and heard a very distinctive noise. As I looked up, I saw a Spitfire and Hurricane fly overhead and come in to land. I felt like I'd gone back in time. I always felt honoured to have the opportunity to fly from there.
I live near Biggin hill too. I was out in the field at the northern end of the runway and I saw a hurricane in the distance. Ended up flying right over me and disappeared over some trees just before landing... Brilliant Hurricanes seem to be a bit quieter than spitfires I have noticed🤔
You should check out Andy Brockman and Tracey Spaight's new book 'The Buried Spitfires of Burma' it's fantastic! It follows the legend and history of spitfires in Burma and their archeological exploration there. buriedinburma.com/book/
My grandfather was a WWII Soldier Medic, he was the last of his team because his team had been killed. There were thousands of Germans chasing after my grandfather and my grandfather was shooting back at them with his pistol while he was running' a German skimmed my grandfather's head which is extremely lucky because it didn't even hit his ear. he survived WWII and died in like 2009. R.I.P
"it's got to be able to do 400 miles an hour, turn on a sixpence, climb 10,000 feet in a few minutes, dive at 500 without the wings coming off, carry eight machine guns" The crazy thing is that it actually did all of those things. The Mk I could carry the guns and turn like crazy. The Mk IX did 400 MPH eventually. The Mk XIV made it possible to reach 10,000 feet in two minutes. And the Mk 21 finally gave it the wing strength to dive at 500 safely. This thing's still an amazing machine. Long live the Spitfire.
Erm.......MK IX Spitfires were dived to Mach 0.92 by Pierre Cloistermann in 1943 during high speed trials- well before the Mk 21, and well past 500 mph. It was banging on the door of breaking the sound barrier!
@@liverpoolscottish6430 Oh I knew that. But as far as I know (correct me please) those were specially designed trials and not common occurrences, and many of the airplanes involved in said trials suffered some damage afterwards. Also, those were likely at high altitude, where the indicated airspeed is lower than the true airspeed. Not that those things completely discount the flights, but the later wing designs could perform those high-speed dives under combat conditions at fairly low altitudes.
Still one of the best prop planes ever built and they even considered it capable of breaking Mach 1. Madness I know but if any prop plane could do it it would be the spit or the mustang.
Superb stuff, PSB's excellent musicianship over the early wartime film First of The Few. Leslie Howard, here playing Spitfire creator R J Mitchell would himself be shot down by enemy activity a year later in 1943. Love the look on the fighter controllers face at 3.22!
Oh man! This record is just "plane" awesome. From someone that has loved the Spitfire, and had the fortune to work around them, this is a fantastic tribute and a great track.
As an American (a Conservative American, it must be said) I truly appreciate the accomplishment represented by the Spitfire. And, as a compatriot of the Free World, I share the pride of our shared success known as the Mustang. Together these two planes and nations led the fight against tyranny. Together we all can look back on those terrible times of loss as well as the eventual pride of success. Oh, how the world has changed since the best of us have gone; I pray their sacrifice will not be forgotten. I wonder, would we be able to do it if called?
One Helluva good video. Should make History accessible to youngsters for decades to come. Hats off to the lads and lasses of the RAF, RNAS and FAA, The Few.
I volunteer at an old people's home where one old gent used to fly Kingston-built Sea Hurricanes to protect Atlantic convoys. His plane was not launched off a proper aircraft carrier. I worked with another bloke who was a paratrooper in the Waffen-SS. As time goes by we seem to be losing our connection with the war. Thanks to PSB for making an exciting and relevant track.
He isn't lying. The CAM (that was what they were called, iirc) Sea Hurricanes were launched by rocket from converted freighters. The plane would then ditch next to the ship, and they would attempt to recover the pilot. The plane was toast though. Sounds like a waste, but they were used to shoot down FW 200 Condors. If one of those blokes got a message to the U-boats, which they would, the convey was in trouble, so 1 plane vs thousands of tons of shipping isn't to bad of an idea.
Sea Hurricanes an amazing aircraft for its time, the Hurricane is a stuningly simply constructed aircraft which gave it highly regarded durability (safe landings where known with gaping holes in the wings, of the sort that would cause the stressed-monocoque of a spits to fail!) and the most significant for the sea hurricane; it can be taken apart and reassembled by just about anyone... even aboard a merchant vessel out on the atlantic. And that's just how the sea hurricane was used, as Dubsy 102 has covered these converted merchant ships would carry a launch sled, a handful of built hurricanes and crates of parts to build more!
My life is now pre PSB and post PSB. On the surface it's aimed at nerdy Airfix gluing telescope viewing quantum man on the moon Gerry Anderson mustard coloured nylon Stanley Kubrick Space Odyssey yes Gagarin is a hero chaps like me, and on the other hand, pop hooks that grab like crack cocaine. My life will never be the same again. And the Apollo 8 thing , sublime. I'd take my specs off and rub my eyes to that . Mind blowing 45 years later.
My new favourite record.I was surprised this is 10 years old and it had gone under my radar (😁) . It's only the first week of January and I already know what my top track for Spotify wrapped is. The great shame for me is they will never come close to topping this track.
Just superb. Extremely moving, too. Today (4th June) we remember the people who fought and died to maintain our freedom to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, or not, as we choose! That is the British way that we defend.
For five years I've kept coming back to this song quite frequently, still get shivers. Rousing, masterful stuff, which gained a new immediacy last summer thanks to Chris Nolan and "Dunkirk".
Thank you PSB for re animating the great endeavours of our now mostly long gone relatives.This incredible little fighter plane played a pivotal role in saving our country and after that war generated a huge interest in aviation .The younger generation should watch and learn and perhaps understand the effort put in by the R.A.F in WW2 which saved us being conquered and overrun and in the Reichs plans of Operation Sea Lion once Britain fell we were all to be mostly exterminated but that was not to be. It was in fact instead to become the first battle of ww2 the Third Reich actually lost thank largely to the Spitfire and the Hurricane . So the R.A.F really did save our bacon.
I saw Brian Kingcombe in there a few times. CO of 92 Squadron Bigin Hill. Read his book 'A Willingness To Die'. There's also Geoffry Wellum's book 'First Light'. In the same Squadron during the Battle of Britain. And if you're really wanting to get to grips with all this kinda muggins - read 'The First And The Last' by Adolf Galland - one of the Huns trying to shoot down our chaps! All great reads and even better in a soft arm chair and a good bottle of red!
If the silhouette doesn't make every hair in your body stand on end then I feel bad for you. This and Concorde are the iconic achievements of British engineering in the last century. I hope there will be many more in the century to come.
This is the music you hear during the results boards of the ITV4 broadcasts of the BTCC. Shows that whoever's managing the sound at ITV4 knows their stuff.
So lucky to have seen them live twice even got to speak to the main man aswell. Just incredible still. 👍👍👍👍the modern day frankie goes to hollywood samplers ✊✊✊✊🇬🇧🇬🇧
Fell in love with 'Every Valley' a few years back after hearing a couple of tracks on Mark Radcliffes 6 Music show.. Lo and behold sat in the car in traffic this morning and Lauren Laverne..just happened to be playing ' Spitfire'..what a great music track to accompany the narrative..Will be adding the "War Toom CD to that of Every Valley and the CD single for the "Titanic" also obtained after hearing it on Six Music.. Sheer Brilliance... Ps..Was only watching the Leslie Howard Spitfire film on talking pictures recently..aswell...spooky..but brilliant coincidence..
As a proud American, I have unlimited admiration of Great Britain and it's people who stood alone against Nazis while other countries including the USA just wrote them off. If England had fallen the whole free world would have been very dire straights. But the Brits with two great airplanes the Spitfire and the workhorse Hurricane gave The Nazis their first real bloody nose and saved our asses. Great Video and movie.
+illiterate thug Your name is perfect...of course you can take pride in the endeavour of others, fellow countrymen in time of war. What would you do...scarper and cower i bet.
This is great, it has elements in it that remind me some of Hawkwin'd's tracks from the 1980s, ie Spirit Of the Age and also of the concept album Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters, awesome!
When I was a kid, back in the dim and increasingly distant days of the mid 1970s, I got to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire at Scottish National Museum of Flight at East Fortune. Beautiful aircraft.
This is just brilliant on so many levels. Wonderful tune and an inspiring subject. I never thought someone could put my all time favourite aeroplane to music. Fantastic.
BRIT IN TEXAS , Born in Stoke, always pushing for a eulogy and recognition of Reginald Mitchell, WOW , just stumbled on this, sorry to be late to the party , FANTASTIC !
you are never late to the party my friend ,thanks to the chaps of the R A F . through them the partys always available ps texaco was suppling the nazi in south americas waters right untill the usa entered the war along with 1 the ford motor company 2 chrysler 3 coca cola 4 texaco 5 I B M and someone once said america came to our rescue. for every boy,and man an american mother lost for the cause of freedom we thank you ,your loss was too much for you and too much for us ,but a price worth paying for democracy. thank you
