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Post by pretzel on Aug 29, 2020 19:35:11 GMT
Don't think I've seen it on here so thought I'd flag it up in case anyone wants to catch it Coming from Derby to fly over Royal Stoke Hospital at 10:37 to say thanks to NHS workers. Spitfire fly past |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 29, 2020 20:16:12 GMT
Nice one Pretzel it’s a two minute walk down for me👍🏻
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Post by iancransonsknees on Aug 30, 2020 9:42:58 GMT
Just been straight over the top of me, might have circled Penkhull church.
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Post by heworksardtho on Aug 30, 2020 9:50:43 GMT
Flew over our house in Weston Coyney , fantastic sight and sound
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 30, 2020 9:51:44 GMT
I walked down to the hospital, plenty of people there
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Post by crowey on Aug 30, 2020 10:34:05 GMT
.... we just tend to get the RAAF Black Hawks & Chinooks flying over our place usually after dark
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Post by Dresden_scfc on Aug 30, 2020 10:36:35 GMT
Don't think I've seen it on here so thought I'd flag it up in case anyone wants to catch it Coming from Derby to fly over Royal Stoke Hospital at 10:37 to say thanks to NHS workers. Spitfire fly pastGreat gesture 👏 |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Aug 30, 2020 11:07:30 GMT
Good job it didn't land, they appreciate NHS staff so much they would have charged it to park.
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Post by questionable on Aug 30, 2020 11:13:10 GMT
Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the Spitfire's development throughout.
I was always under the impression that Mitchell was responsible for the numerous upgrades throughout the war, obviously I was mistaken.
Can’t find the exact figures but I’ve read somewhere that they realised by filling down the rivets on the wings it’d give something like an extra 20mph, wings tended to drop off but it least it was an upgrade ( joking about the wings dropping off btw)
Another little snippet it was actually the hurricane that actually was the main fighter in the Battle of Britain.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 30, 2020 12:50:41 GMT
Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the Spitfire's development throughout. I was always under the impression that Mitchell was responsible for the numerous upgrades throughout the war, obviously I was mistaken. Can’t find the exact figures but I’ve read somewhere that they realised by filling down the rivets on the wings it’d give something like an extra 20mph, wings tended to drop off but it least it was an upgrade ( joking about the wings dropping off btw) Another little snippet it was actually the hurricane that actually was the main fighter in the Battle of Britain. With 372 Spitfires and 709 Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain it was the latter that holds the accolade of "winning the Battle of Britain". One of the most important modification was to the fuel system of the Merlin engine. The early engines were carburettor fed and when the plane inverted the float chamber would cause loss of power as the engine momentarily stalled. This gave the M109E some advantage in dog fights as it had fuel injection on its Messerschmitt engine, although the Spitfire had much superior turning ability. The initial invention to overcome this fuel starvation was invented by the female engineer Beatrice Shilling. A simple disc with an orifice to restrict fuel starvation in the float chamber. This was very popular amongst both Spitfire and Hurricane pilots and it became known as Miss Shillings Orifice. Later the carburettor was replaced by Stromberg fuel injection. |
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Post by ravey123 on Aug 30, 2020 13:12:25 GMT
Flew over our house in Weston Coyney , fantastic sight and sound The sound of a Spitfire in flight just brings tears of pride and goosebumps everytime to me. |
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Post by butlerstbob on Aug 30, 2020 13:32:33 GMT
I was sat just outside Derby this mornig at 10:30 when it flew straight over... Wonderful sight and sound👌
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Post by questionable on Aug 30, 2020 13:34:41 GMT
All time favorite plane, followed by the Stuka.
Friends grandparents told him that when they were fleeing Poland the sound of the Stuka planes diving was terrifying, early physiological warfare.
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Post by heworksardtho on Aug 30, 2020 14:08:57 GMT
Flew over our house in Weston Coyney , fantastic sight and sound The sound of a Spitfire in flight just brings tears of pride and goosebumps everytime to me. At first my Mrs said that lawn mower is loud 😂, it was so low as well and I’ve never seen one flying , saw the red arrows over staff Potts when cloloroll bought them out in the early eighties |
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Post by callas12 on Aug 30, 2020 14:38:05 GMT
I'm in at Royal Stoke hospital at the mo recovering from an op & the fly past definitely had the staff talking & was certainly an uplifting gesture for staff & patients alike. Pleasant sunny morning for it too. Nice how it did a loop around the hospital before its flyover where it tipped its wings as in a salute gesture
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Post by murphthesurf on Aug 30, 2020 19:42:17 GMT
Many moons ago I loved taking the cubs on coaches for days out to interesting, fun places --- when the great kids' film, 'Jungle Book', which has many name links to scouting, came to what was then the Gaumont in Hanley, I thought a trip to see it was not to be missed, but much more importantly I also saw an opportunity to take them to see the Spitfire which used to be on permanent display in a glass structure there - I think it was outside the museum, where I got the coach to firstly drop us off.
The kids loved seeing the wonderful aircraft up relatively close and hearing about Reginald Mitchell being a local man and a bit about the Battle of Britain, etc., after which we walked down to the cinema. I don't know which they enjoyed more - seeing the Spitfire or the film, but they certainly loved both and it was a brilliant day out.
I think the same Spitfire is currently being restored and will then go on show again.
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Post by murphthesurf on Aug 30, 2020 20:26:01 GMT
Flew over our house in Weston Coyney , fantastic sight and sound
The sound of a Spitfire in flight just brings tears of pride and goosebumps everytime to me.
Same here. My mother was one of the girls - called 'Swynnerton Roses' - who worked at the munitions factory there during the war and I always remember a story she told me about what happened one afternoon just after the end of the war, when she had been completely on her own, walking in the open countryside where they lived, and she heard the sound of an aircraft which then flew over in the direction in which she was walking - she was thrilled to see that it was a Spitfire, and when it got just past her the pilot did a victory roll and then flew on his way. Needless to say she was elated at having seen this and she never forgot it. |
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Post by questionable on Aug 30, 2020 20:43:01 GMT
I was out walking the dogs recently when I heard a chug, chug, chug sound looked and noticed a really low flying Apache helicopter, strange sounding but a lovely looking machine.
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Post by callas12 on Aug 31, 2020 18:22:51 GMT
I was out walking the dogs recently when I heard a chug, chug, chug sound looked and noticed a really low flying Apache helicopter, strange sounding but a lovely looking machine. Always think that Apaches look like giant prowling mosquitoes, ready selecting to fire at its target! |
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Post by questionable on Sept 1, 2020 12:46:24 GMT
I was out walking the dogs recently when I heard a chug, chug, chug sound looked and noticed a really low flying Apache helicopter, strange sounding but a lovely looking machine. Always think that Apaches look like giant prowling mosquitoes, ready selecting to fire at its target! Recall reading that the Taliban called them mosquitos and during a treaty of some description they insisted that they’d stop using them as basically they couldn’t see them only hear them before “boom”, awesome piece of kit. |
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