IanH Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Out for a walk with family and dog at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire yesterday afternoon (and a nice day it was too), when we heard a grumble getting louder, to look up and see 2 Spitfires soar overhead and proceed to do a few low passes before flying off. Typically, I'd left the camcorder at home so had to make do with my mobile phone. Video below and full HD version on Youtube proper... Edit: Should add, this is the first time I've seen a Spitfire so low, let alone two, so really made my day. Embedded video is pretty titchy, looks better (but still shaky) on Youtube. Edited By IanH on 23/09/2012 20:36:28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Bennett Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bowker Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Very nice Ian, thanks for sharing. A lovely English backdrop where Spitfires flying overhead wouldn't have been out of place some 70 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon B Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 If it's the same ones (I suspect it is), one of them landed at the other end of our runway at Waterbeach Barracks where our club's based. We all happily stopped flying for an hour while they did a few laps. They were doing a display for veterans who'd been based there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Nice one Ian. Well worth missing a few hours model flying on a good day for. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cantwell Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 beutifull day, aeroplane, and the house as well, 10 out of 10, reminds me of when i was going flying up my local hill, a sea fury appeared overhead, did a few circuits and did few dives into the vally below, did a roll on the climb out, she was waiting to be called up for the barton airshow display, what a great 15 minutets, apart from the nit who was stood with me, arnt those spitfires great indeed!!! sadly, shortly after this display, she was lost with an undercart failure, the pilot safely performing the last over the side bail out of a service aircraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Whiskey Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Excellent ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josip Vrandecic -Mes Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Thanks Ian,those two are truly privileged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Just to let you know that if you are near Ely in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 29th September at 1.45pm there is a fly past of two Spitfires. It is for a reunion of personnel who were at RAF Hospital Ely. DB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Fantastic, which I'd been there. Spitfires (initially) flying over my home when I was knee high to a grasshopper have left me with my life long interest in aeroplanes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorset flyer again Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 WOW! would have made the hairs on my neck go mental ;0) Loved the wing waggle as they left, great vid! A few weeks ago a Hurri did some circuits over my place, I presume he was waiting to begin his display down the road at Bournemouth air festival, not a sound nor feeling like it, makes you proud to be a part of the nation they so bravely saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeS Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Nice video. Great to see and share. Fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbycat Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I was at Wimpole hall on Sunday and one came over a couple of times during the morning. Was brilliant watching it do some very graceful aeros. Now I have to add one to my hangar! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Laughton Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Fabulous video Ian - the perfect sky made the perfect aeroplane(s) look even more fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Gibson Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Brilliant....just Brilliant..... Thank you for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanH Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Happy to share the video, it made my day so made sense for others to enjoy it too. It happened to be a 1940s day at Wimpole Hall, so the setting was made all the more authentic by folk in military and civilian clothes (and hair-dos) ambling about too. Does anyone know which specific Spitfires these are, or even which "revision" they are? I like to find out a bit more about planes I see in the flesh, so to speak, but HD or not, I can't clearly make out the markings on these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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