The Spitfire thread

[Micdrow]

Here are a few that I have on spitfires through the years.

 

[The Basket]

The early marks of Spitfire are beautiful to me.

Not only engineering art but represent my peoples will to fight.

...oh and the Hurricane too.

 

[Blaydon]

That frontal shot getting his wheels up is superb

If you're using a scanner app try re-sizing to 800 pixels, the other dimensions should auto-size after that

Actually i believe the bigger the better, they make great desktop images at their original size so I left them raw from the camera.

 

[gwalch]

Spitfire VB BL628.

Had these pics sent to me by a mate.

Apparently the first few pics are from her maiden flight.

The last pics are from Oshkosh where it won Best Fighter at 2008 EAA AirVenture.

Enjoy

8)

 

[gwalch]

The early marks of Spitfire are beautiful to me.

Not only engineering art but represent my peoples will to fight.

...oh and the Hurricane too.

I agree whole heartedly.. I love the early marks.. especially the Mk 1 2 with just the 8 machine guns.
I got to go to the Imperial War Museum in London a couple of years ago and they have Spitfire I R6915 hanging from the roof. Fantastic looking aircraft.

 

[Cota1992]

Here's the Spitfire that's in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the National Mall.

 

[Waynos]

A couple of years ago I was holidaying in Cornwall and as I was dring along to the next village to where I was staying a strange sight caught my eye. As I went closer it revealed iself as someones personal tribute to the Spitfire and the guys who flew it. The odd thing is this is nowhere near a runway, just someones back garden, how fantastic is that! Here are three pics I manged to take before I had to move on. I'd have loved to meet and speak with the householder.

 

[Graeme]

That is impressive. Nice photos Wayne. Did he have a Lancaster in the backyard?! I expect you contributed to the Spitfire Fund box in the foreground!

Off topic, but there was a guy who kept an Avro 707A in his Melbourne backyard until 1999...

RAAF Museum: Behind the Scenes: Storage Handling

 

[Airframes]

Great shots guys. How I'd love a replica Spit outside the house! Jeremy Clarkson (For the non-Brits, he's a well-known presenter of motoring programmes on TV) has a Lightning F6 in his garden, lucky sod! (That's the BAC Lightning, not the Lockheed P38 photo recce bird BTW).

 

[Wayne Little]

If I had a choice it would be a Fw190D-9!

 

[Graeme]

Jeremy Clarkson (For the non-Brits, he's a well-known presenter of motoring programmes on TV) has a Lightning F6 in his garden, lucky sod! (That's the BAC Lightning, not the Lockheed P38 photo recce bird BTW).

G'day Terry, do you happen to know if this guy still has a Vulcan nose on his front lawn?

 

[gwalch]

Was recently given a box of photographs of various aircraft (mainly RAAF), and here are the Spitfire related pics.
Most of the pics are marked:

Department of Defence.
Ref. No.
Public Relations Canberra

Some jolly nice pics all up.

 

[Njaco]

Nice gwalch! Love that second one with them all over that field.

 

[seesul]

BEAUTIFUL SHOTS GARY!
I guess this thread is missing few pics8)

 

[Cota1992]

Cool! I read about hauling the beer with a Spitfire from England to Normandy in the Johnnie Johnson book many years ago but I don't think I ever saw pictures of it being done!
If I remember right it was a Canadian sqaudron.

 

[Njaco]

"Whatever you do, DON'T touch the red lever on the right side of the cockpit!!!"

 

[Yerger]

Had heart surgery last year. 1st image on the thread (row) enough to need a pill.

 

[Geedee]

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[Gnomey]

Excellent shots Gary!

Should go through mine and post some of the ones I have.

 

[Airframes]

Great pics Gary, and it looks much better with the proper noisy bits up front !