Spitfires flying yesterday

[moaten]

A small local air display with a couple of spits doing their stuff.

1st is a Spitfire Mark VIII HF owned locally, it needed a bit of ballast on the tail to make it safely down the hill from the strip - hence the guy sat on the tail ! The second is the double seater which recently sold at bonhams for £1.7 million.

This was my first time photographing aircraft and I messed up most of the in flight pics by using too slow a shutter speed - we live and learn :bonk:

 

[Ziploc]

Nice set lovely prop blur. pity about the helicopter in shot 3. Any chance of a link to a larger pic 1?

 

[moaten]

Link to a larger copy of 1 - hope it works

+ I found a pic of the spit under the trees, minus the helecopter...........

 

[Volusian]

great shots in nice settings too ... might look good in mono too ..

 

[waspjunior]

Great shots, they look so right on a grass strip as opposed to an artificial airshow type environment. No1 and the last one under the tree are my favourites.

 

[Ziploc]

Thanks for the link makes a nice backdrop.

 

[Morthin]

Number 1 great.................. shot makes it look what it most certainly must have been like during ww2 in rurual England

 

[Pirate!]

#1 reminds me of a ground attack 'beat up' . . . Dagga dagga dagga

 

[willbaroo]

Lovely shots!

Number 3 can I see a Westland Scout?

If so do you have any more pictures of her? I would be interested in the tail number as my dad flew Scouts in the Falklands War.

 

[moaten]

Well spotted on the Westland, piccy here for you, she is regd G-NOTY and owned locally.

 

[waspjunior]

For willbaroo, G-NOTY was formerly XT624 of the Army Air Corps according to a quick Google.

 

[willbaroo]

Thanks waspjunior.

Had a look through the log book and it looks like he flew it back in his training days.

 

[ukpbz]

Great shots of the Spits. Where was that?

Cheers