Possibly the best looking aircraft ever made, certainly one of the most successful.

Not that I am biased at all ...............

This was a totally unexpected and unannounced fly past at the National Memorial Arboretum.

This was a complete "grab shot" so I was very lucky indeed.

nice! I read somewhere that POTN regulations frowned upon posting a single shot of a Spitfire, not sure what the punishment was though...

Oops My bad.... fixed now

Very nice & based on many comments re my R/C photos you may be right about it's ranking.

Good save! Now how about reducing the image size to 1024px or below? ; )

. . . great catch Neil - U2 Frank !!

PhotosGuy wrote in post #16362788
Good save! Now how about reducing the image size to 1024px or below? ; )

OK So my double bad, I used the wrong link, you would think after 10 years I would be starting to get the hang of this

Sorry

i never pick favorites... since i like too many vehicles :P

Neil was there a helicopter in the along with the Spitfire? I know a company does air to air with a Spitfire over the Fighter Command Memorial in Kent. I was wondering if they were doing the National Memorial Arboretum as well now?

I just feel sorry for the poor old Hurricane, the real aircraft that won the Battle of Britain for us. More fighters and bombers shot down than the Spitfire! Unfortunately though a bit of a plain Jane of a fighter.

Alan

I looked up the serial number, this is from the RAF BBMF, this is a MK IIa and the only remaining flying spitfire that took part in the battle of Britain.

http://www.raf.mod.uk …ircraft/spitfir​ep7350.cfm

You are on the money with the Hurricane, I watched a great documentary last week about the Polish 303 Squadron, well worth looking at.

neil_r wrote in post #16365047
... I watched a great documentary last week about the Polish 303 Squadron, well worth looking at.

I remember reading about those guys. Pretty impressive. And when they didn't want to fly in formation, they just radioed something incomprehensible & went off to do their own thing, which was to get a better kill ratio than the Limeys. ; D

Best looking aircraft ever made.....P-51D Mustang!

romeokc10 wrote in post #16368887
Best looking aircraft ever made.....P-51D Mustang!

LoL I wonder where they got the idea from, I know where they got the engine

The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin 60 series two-stage two-speed supercharged engine"

An argument for either the Spit or the P51 can be made in regards to being the most beautiful aircraft ever produced but they both were powered by the sublime Merlin which is absolutely the single most perfect sounding mechanical engine ever produced in my opinion.