Spitfire 944

[torc]

I found this a few days ago.
"In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time."

[video=youtube;ie3SrjLlcUY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY[/video]

Happy trails...torc.

 

[Goatboy]

That was great Torc thanks. You have to admire the understatement and courage that that generation had.

Thanks for posting,
GB.

 

[Badger74]

I'd recommend a book called Fighter Pilot by Paul Ritchie(?). He was Hurricane pilot in France during the 'phoney war'. It's about his experience of that time which included being shot down, twice I think.

sent by weird means

 

[Robbi]

what a wonderful video

 

[Gaudette]

Excellent thanks for posting.

 

[crosslandkelly]

What a great movie. I loved the part near the end, when he suddenly realizes that he is watching himself crash land.

 

[Humpback]

Thank you. Just watched it with a tear in my eye.


Alan

 

[Mesquite]

Thanks for that Torc, I thoroughly enjoyed watching that

 

[Macaroon]

That's great; a very different breed of hero, eh?.....Thanks for the post,..............atb mac

 

[Dreadhead]

wow thats great, very touching!

 

[bilmo-p5]

Wonderful vid, Torc. Well spotted & thank you for posting it.

 

[British Red]

Thoroughly enjoyed that - thought it might be cheesy - but not a bit! Brave guy

 

[wingstoo]

They had one of these Spitfire photo recce aeroplanes at the Cosford Airshow this year, fantastic to watch, and the pilots who flew them back in the war were amazingly brave as has been shown in the clip above, basically a flying camera unit with a massive fuel tank to get there and back, painted blue as camouflage against the sky they flew a lot higher than most of the planes normally did. often at 30,000.

 

[Elen Sentier]

Ta muchley . Hubby is very pleased to see it too, he remembers the war from being a very young child and his Dad was in North Africa.