Spitfire Flypast Today

[Jim H]

I picked a good day to be WFH

Apologies for the video quality, I was shaking so much. This is me in my back garden, I was absolutely delighted.

I think I captured the Merlin sound well enough.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/CwUN67TSvJs

[dukeboy749r]

Great sound clip!

I love videos that show more than one Spitfire and/or Hurricane - the combined sound is so visceral and spine tingling.

[CouncilFerrari]

I went to the Shuttleworth Season Premiere in 2019, as I was working in the area. The sound of the Merlin's as these three came into sight, banking over the airfield.... spine tingling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF0xZDxSBWY

Something quite evocative watching them taxing and taking off from a grass strip, too.

Edited by CouncilFerrari on Monday 13th April 12:47

[Jim H]

dukeboy749r said:

Great sound clip!

I love videos that show more than one Spitfire and/or Hurricane - the combined sound is so visceral and spine tingling.

Duke, it was Manna from Heaven for myself. I have always had a love of aircraft and flying. One of my hobbies is flying RC Aircraft and I have a Spitfire I have been flying for over 30 years now. Only rarely mind, it’s not an easy thing to fly.

I knew about this flypast last week, and I was going to ask on here if anyone knew any details, but I never got around to it.

I honestly thought it would not be passing by near to me, then the local news website posted its route, of course I was WFH and couldn’t be distracted.

Then I thought, bloody hell, that’s flying right over my house!

It WAS a spine tingling moment, so special, and on an absolutely beautiful day.

[Bomma 996]

Bloody marvellous, well captured!

I'll never tire of the Merlin soundtrack.

[Easternlight]

Could always get your own!

Ok it's a Meteor but sounds the same.

[MDUBZ]

We get 1 or 2 flying overhead pretty much every day in the summer (not too far from Duxford), normally get 2 or 3 minutes of barrel rolls and the like. I'll never get tired of it..

[HughG]

MDUBZ said:

We get 1 or 2 flying overhead pretty much every day in the summer (not too far from Duxford), normally get 2 or 3 minutes of barrel rolls and the like. I'll never get tired of it..

Similar for us, with the passenger flights taking place out of Biggin Hill, we’re just outside Tonbridge. I also will never get tired of it, and always look whenever I hear them.

[DaveyBoyWonder]

We were on the top of Tennyson Down on the Isle of Wight a few years back watching 2 doing circles of the Solent. Amazing sight and sound...

[hurstg01]

One flies out of Blackbushe some weekends over the spring / summer and it is always a spectacle.

I never tire of running to the garden to see it circle above the local area

[towser44]

Went to New Brighton on the Wirral to see it, but, it cut out the coast/mouth of the Mersey so was a meer dot in the distance with the Hawk :-(

[swanny71]

Thanks for posting that, absolutely understand your excitement.

I always get goosebumps (and a lump in my throat) hearing anything with a Merlin flying overhead - I can’t explain why and my Mrs thinks I’m weird.

Some of you guys probably understand though…..right?

[Jim H]

swanny71 said:

Thanks for posting that, absolutely understand your excitement.

I always get goosebumps (and a lump in my throat) hearing anything with a Merlin flying overhead - I can t explain why and my Mrs thinks I m weird.

Some of you guys probably understand though ..right?

Oh absolutely, it made my day / week / month!

I couldn’t believe it was passing over my house, I’d been tracking it down on my Plane Finder App from the Solway Firth.

Unmistakable hearing it approach, I just wish the video could have been better - however all I had was my phone. It was at about 1-2 thousand feet. And still bloody loud!

[MiniMan64]

Down in the south west today. Landed in Newquay and due to loop around Cornwall and Devon to land in Exeter later.

[dukeboy749r]

Jim H said:

Duke, it was Manna from Heaven for myself. I have always had a love of aircraft and flying. One of my hobbies is flying RC Aircraft and I have a Spitfire I have been flying for over 30 years now. Only rarely mind, it s not an easy thing to fly.

I knew about this flypast last week, and I was going to ask on here if anyone knew any details, but I never got around to it.

I honestly thought it would not be passing by near to me, then the local news website posted its route, of course I was WFH and couldn t be distracted.

Then I thought, bloody hell, that s flying right over my house!

It WAS a spine tingling moment, so special, and on an absolutely beautiful day.

[normalbloke]

Currently buzzing my house nr Daedalus.

[MiniMan64]

normalbloke said:

Currently buzzing my house nr Daedalus.

I was under the impression the 90 flight was currently on the ground in Newquay…

[normalbloke]

MiniMan64 said:

normalbloke said:

Currently buzzing my house nr Daedalus.

I was under the impression the 90 flight was currently on the ground in Newquay

In which case, my mistake, it may have been G-ILDA then.