2 from the Cleethorpes Air Show

A nice over powered Pitts knife edging it down the beach and below it a Bouchon doing a fly past.

Two great shots. Love the Pitts..

Cheers

Boggy

Real nice. Never heard of # 2.

A Bouchon is basically an ME109 with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine fitted (Spitfire engine), think they were built by the Spanish after the war with left over stock.

Great shots! Love the 109.

Nice ones!

Mick Emmett wrote in post #17062943
A Buchon is basically an ME109 with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine fitted (Spitfire engine), think they were built by the Spanish after the war with left over stock.

What a pedigree! I haven't heard of them, either. Now if the guy flying it was Armenian... ; D

Easy to tell a Bouchon, the Messerschmitt Bf 109's engine is inverted so the exhaust manifolds come out much lower down the cowling, the two youtube films clearly show the differences. The commentator at the Airshow kept going on about the fact they are the same engine in the Spitfire and the Bouchon but they sounded so different, not to me they didn't, they sounded identical.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=d-9xsRBBTQY

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=BzUUlO6ihwE

The 109 is great, it could be a still from the 'Battle of Britain' film...