Watch The Incredible 2024 BBMF Spitfire Practice Display In Action! 

A Tragedy all around for all involved 😔

Yes, my sentiments also. Prayers and condolences to the family.

RIP 🙏

A nice thought to use this video as a tribute. That is kind x

@@buffplums thank you, we are not sure if this was the pilot, sadly I think it was. Such a sad and tragic accident. Horrible

We are extremely saddened by what has happened today. Sadly it was the spitfire in this video, we not sure about the pilot. We are extremely upset and send out thoughts to the BBMF team and the pilots family

100% agree, horrible what happened.

Horrible news, shocking

Thank you so much m8, it was a awesome day. Think so nearly it didn't happen with the weather. So glad we did it. Thank you. Honestly thank you for supporting the channel

it was great to see it

Well said

Heartbroken

Totaly, heartbreaking weekend

really sad what happened. Blue Sky's Mark Long.

It's left me really sad tbh

Think, back in the early 80s, i think we only had 1 Hurricane flying, they really have got the old birds back. Thank you so much

tbh it is totaly heartbreaking - I watched him get the Display PDA on the monday, and then this happens on the Weekend. Totaly gutted, not been to Coningsby since. Prob will this week. Mark our respects etc

Thanks you

Lovely sound

Heartbreaking what had happened

Totaly, really sad

Thank you so much for watching and messaging. I love the bbmf

Thank you so much. Its comments like this that keep me going. Honestly thank you

no its a he

@@tedtedsen269 lol.

Your welcome m8

@@tedtedsen269 I call it a she because R.J. Mitchell's design is brilliant, sleek and sexy looking. Eliptical wing, fuselage, with a Merlin Mk 1-9, looks, sounds perfect. Arguably the most anestheticly pleasing aircraft of all time. The Bf 109 with it's angular design and protruding bits, spars look a bit Frankenstein looking to me. So I refer to a Spitfire as a she.

The MK356 is, or rather was, a Mk IXe

Glad you enjoyed it!

Oh wow

Yes, i do believe. These things happened.

@@thephilpott2194 sadly it does.

"Carrier Pilot " by Norman Hansen...also details numbers of Chance Vought Corsairs and Spitfires...dumped in the sea off Australia right after WW2...rather than bring them home...!!!!!...My father's friend was sent to Malta from Gibraltar with his big sea-going tug...to assist the dumping of scores of tons of munitions into the sea off Malta...this was also around 1956..!!!!!

Awesome sound

Honestly what happend was heartbreaking. Terrible event

Join us on Monday, we should get displays by the typhoon hurricane and spitfire. It's PDA day

Honestly it's so sad

Thank you too!

100% agreed

Good question! No idea lol, was a surprise getting her tbh

Looking very nice in her new scheme. Love the bbmf, esp spitty

@@coningsbylive I was on a hangar tour last week, and my tour guide said they were hoping to get MK up flying in the next week or so 🙂

@@jazzkazz and so they did lol, thats so cool

We are extremely saddened by what has happened today. Sadly it was the spitifire in this video, we not sure about the pilot. We are extremely upset and send out thoughts to the BBMF team and the pilots family

Totaly shocking and sad

The RAF has a memorial flight called Battle of Britain, but they will change the schemes of the fighters to pay respect to flight groups, pilots etc. I think this year this Spitfire has been selected for the North African tribute. I dont have the details as to why, but they always change the paint schemes of them. For example last couple of years the Hurricane has been black, but this year its back to camo.

​@@coningsbyliveThat's interesting, I didn't know that.

Neither do i actually. What I can say as my Dad was flight crew in WW2 is that these aircraft are synonymous with hope, belief, that Great Britain would eventually win WW2. It’s also about the engine. The rolls Royce Merlin was a 1750 litre V12. When fired up, it gives you goose bumps. I don’t know why that should be other than the sound of raw power. These air craft like most didn’t have exhaust silencers. And the engines were supercharged. My Dad was telling me there was a wire gate in the throttle control that when the pilot crashed the throttled to emergency full power, something like nitrous was pumped in to the engine to give it that extra when engaged in battle. I’m 66 this year and we are the last of the children who will have a connection to WW2. Our parents were survivors. I know when my Dad was alive, he would hear these engines start up, or those on a. Lancaster as they were the same and a tear would well in his eye… If you have read “Fly for your life” by Robert Roland Stanford Tuck” it’s a terrific book about that period of RAF history and Tuck’s experiences in flying the Spitfire etc.. a really good read.

@@douglasanderson153 wow, that's so interesting

Def is the best job

Sadly he just took off and had a issue. Extremely sad event

@@coningsbylive must have come over here doing a circuit back to the base then, was quite low and slow like when they fly with the lanc

I think the incident happened on take off, but honestly dont know and very sad

totally agree