Wingco, fabulous posts! My msntv 2 media reader web tv system kept shutting down on you tube, it refused to bring up Sinai's movie, and seems to be unusually uncooperative lately, but I will keep trying.
It is so joyfully uplifting to know that there are still a lot of British citizens who appreciate the fighting spirit of the heroes of the Battle of Britain! I was beginning to feel a little alone in my efforts to honor and defend Sir Winston Churchill and his contributions to humanity on this most appropriate of possible threads. My CALL TO GLORY web site explains how I try to use aircraft as teaching aids. Try as I or any other non-Brit may, surely only a real "Britisher" is capable of genuinely representing the Spitfire in its true glory. Your thoughts and observations are priceless. I will continue to enjoy reading and rereading them very much like I do watching aviation program reruns and movies. I hope we can hear from some of your other friends who also enjoy the Spit.
Yes, I love altitude too, but I must try to learn to be more comfortable flying lower for demonstration purposes. My poor depth perception does make this a little a dicey though.
Hemi, great to see you still hanging in there in spite of the agony of defeat.
Well, its getting late and with batteries peak charged for flight on an early dawn patrol, I better close for now and get some shut eye before the mission.
ORIGINAL: wingco
Madwebscientist,
its always a pleasure to find a kindred spirit. There are thousands of us out there, have a look at you tube on the subject of Spits: the rc fanatic who decided that models werent enough so began to gather memorabilia and genuine spitfire parts until he was able to assemble a full size spitfire fuselage with virtually complete cockpit in his garage (it won't ever fly but he loves to climb into it and strap himself in), or going one further: the Canadian light aircraft pilot who built himself a beautiful 3/4 size Mk 2 with a V8 chevy engine, you'd swear it was the real thing in flight, (except flown by a pilot with what appears to be an unusually large head!).
Some of us have the resources and determination to take to the Nth degree, but we all share the same basic passion. For me, being in control of that famous sillhouette and running through my own air display is sufficient (it'll never quite be enough!), going to half throttle and lowering the gear on the up wind leg, flaps down on cross wind and setting up the final approach for a perfect three point landing on the Hangar 9 beats the crap out of playing golf! Going into a steep climb, rolling into inverted position and completing a long diving loop for a perfect immelman turn with the PZ is just as quietly thrilling.
I guess it started when I was very small in our house in the Sussex countryside, we lived near Dunsfold airstrip where a hurricane was stored for the use of the RAF pilots (who were testing the prototype Harrier) on their days off. The sound of the merlin roaring over at treetop height was a fairly regular event, we kids never failed to charge out of the house for a glimpse of the plane banking over the house at full chat. Watching my Spit brings back those same goosbumps.
Wingco
remember: Altitude is your friend
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