Spitfire MkXIX

[paul_g]

A shot of Rolls Royce's Spitfire MkXIX at the Kemble Air Day. Pity images don't have sound, this sounded great!!

http://www.pbase.com/pauls_20d/image/80766798.jpg

[EOSAddict]

Superb... but.. wot no sound ;) hearing it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

[joeseph]

lovely.
as for sound, here's some: http://joebloggs.servebeer.com/sound.wav
we just somehow need to embed the .wav file into the .jpg

[khall]

Great picture. The Spitfire looks like new. Its age would have to be 55+

[khall]

Re - think on its age 60+

[PhotosGuy]

Nice one! Is that paint a naval version?

[EOSAddict]

I think that it's high altitude camo from the end of the war... the Mk 19 is, I think, a recce version.

[paul_g]

I think that it's high altitude camo from the end of the war... the Mk 19 is, I think, a recce version.

Yep, thats spot on. The give away, apart from the colour scheme is the lack of guns and cannon on the wings.

Paul

[greg20d]

Superb... but.. wot no sound ;) hearing it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

I agree they do have the best sounding engine ...thanks to the brits for putting that engine in our mustang .... great planes

[RCoulter]

Awesome!

[EOSAddict]

One of the BBMF ones flew over where I work yesterday... fortunately I was outside to see it..... just fantastic.

[JWright]

A shot of Rolls Royce's Spitfire MkXIX at the Kemble Air Day. Pity images don't have sound, this sounded great!!

http://www.pbase.com/pauls_20d/image/80766798.jpg

Your description isn't exactly accurate... The Spitfire was built by Supermarine. Rolls Royce only built the engine, in the case of the Mk XIX, a Griffon.

[Box Brownie]

A very nice capture of 'the' warbird.

I have found there was a long line improvements & variants and though I have not had time to read all the page here http://www.bbmf.co.uk/fighters.html it does seem to cover the those in the bbmf. Google throws up a range of other sources such as the MkXIX used by the Swedish airforce http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1998/08/stuff_eng_detail_spit19.htm

:)

[mjm80]

Your description isn't exactly accurate... The Spitfire was built by Supermarine. Rolls Royce only built the engine, in the case of the Mk XIX, a Griffon.

While your are correct on the Spitfire being built by Supermarine Paul G's description is also correct as this particular aircraft is owned by Rolls Royce. The following link gives some history of the aircraft.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/history/overview/spitfire.jsp

[JWright]

While your are correct on the Spitfire being built by Supermarine Paul G's description is also correct as this particular aircraft is owned by Rolls Royce. The following link gives some history of the aircraft.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/history/overview/spitfire.jsp

I stand corrected... :o

[Belmondo]

A great shot of arguably the prettiest military aircraft ever....

It's really hard to look at that plane and realize it's roughly the same age as I am. I sure wish I was holding up as well.:(;)

[EOSAddict]

You just need a new paint job Tom ;)

[paul_g]

While your are correct on the Spitfire being built by Supermarine Paul G's description is also correct as this particular aircraft is owned by Rolls Royce. The following link gives some history of the aircraft.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/history/overview/spitfire.jsp


Thanks for the link. Gives a good insight into the plane.

I guess I should have said 'owned by Rolls Royce' in the first place to avoid confusion

Thanks very much for the comments.

Paul

[Bushplane Ken]

A great photo of a beautiful airplane!

[wrxflame]

Love this little fighter and you capture is fitting too.

Is that a photo recon version with that little port hole behind the pilot?

---Goes away and looks at a "Spitfire - A complete fighting hoistory"---

Just answered my own question before finishing the reply...

Yes it is, found a very similar picture and it's a single oblique camera looking to port behind the cockpit as shown in your image paul_g

Regards
Andrew

Edit: already spotted as photo rec in thread sorry!

[PhotosGuy]

A complete fighting hoistory"- :D Cockney accent? Reminds me of Andy Capp!

[Samdiver74]

I have always loved the sound of the Spitfire, even though the Hurricane was also a formidable plane, I think the Spitfire was one of the best for it's day but I love the sound of the Messerschmitt ME 109 also

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9378/

Here this site gives you both Sounds etc.