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There was a documentary about this restoration project. The guy involved was Guy Martin who does allsorts for chennel 4. He's a motorcycle speed freak. Cracking documentary, showing the final 12 mths or so of the project. The prop cost £125,000 if I remember correctly. The 2 women at the start of the video were the pilots daughters.
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Anyone have a spare $3.8 million laying around? Perfectly resstored Spiafire on 00:24 - May 5 by Treforys_Jack
There was a documentary about this restoration project. The guy involved was Guy Martin who does allsorts for chennel 4. He's a motorcycle speed freak. Cracking documentary, showing the final 12 mths or so of the project. The prop cost £125,000 if I remember correctly. The 2 women at the start of the video were the pilots daughters.
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Ross noble Geordie comic?
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
Anyone have a spare $3.8 million laying around? Perfectly resstored Spiafire on 00:27 - May 5 by Treforys_Jack
Sorry wrong fella, thanks Guy Martin doh !!!!!!! cheers Bano
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I'm gutted, that would've been class.
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
Anyone have a spare $3.8 million laying around? Perfectly resstored Spiafire on 04:05 - May 5 by Humpty
The most beautiful aircraft manufactured ever, at any time.
Putting aside it's vital importance to us as a nation, nothing man made that has ever flown looks that good. Full stop. Period for Dav.
I is a classically beautiful aircraft for sure, and another British design that looks good and flew just as well is the jet age Hawker Hunter, My two all time favourites.
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I is a classically beautiful aircraft for sure, and another British design that looks good and flew just as well is the jet age Hawker Hunter, My two all time favourites.
I had a lot of time for the Sopwith Camel
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I went to an air show last year and got talking to an old gent from Skewen who flew Spitfires during the war. He told me when he was discharged and was travelling back home, as he went past St Athan, there was field after field of Spitfires waiting to be decommissioned. Many were sold off to other countries but hundreds were scrapped. Amazing what they would be worth today.
Thank God for Frank Mitchell and his invention of the Spitfire.
It is no exageration to say that aircraft litererally saved the world!
Had it not been around during the Batlle of Britain in 1940 we would have lost the battle,the Nazis would have invaded and the world including America would have fallen.
The perfect war machine in service at just the right time.
Beautiful aircraft...based on the flight of a seagull.....
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"Per ardua ad astra"
Anyone have a spare $3.8 million laying around? Perfectly resstored Spiafire on 13:16 - May 5 by Lord_Bony
Thank God for Frank Mitchell and his invention of the Spitfire.
It is no exageration to say that aircraft litererally saved the world!
Had it not been around during the Batlle of Britain in 1940 we would have lost the battle,the Nazis would have invaded and the world including America would have fallen.
The perfect war machine in service at just the right time.
Beautiful aircraft...based on the flight of a seagull.....
Apparently, the Hurricane shot down more than the spitfire did
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Apparently, the Hurricane shot down more than the spitfire did
During the battle both aircraft performed admirably using cutting edge technology at the time.There were a lot more Hurricanes in service in 1940 but the roles were slightly different..the Hurricanes went after the bombers and the Spits went after the fighters mainly.
I doubt just Hurricanes alone would have won the battle even though they played an equally important part in it against the Me109s and Heinkel 111 s...
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Apparently, the Hurricane shot down more than the spitfire did
During the BoB, absolutely correct, but were then superseded by the Spitfire mk4 I believe. There is a Battle of Britain display in the RAF museum in Hendon, where there is a Spit and a Hurricane next to each other, goosebumps I tell you.
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Thank God for Frank Mitchell and his invention of the Spitfire.
It is no exageration to say that aircraft litererally saved the world!
Had it not been around during the Batlle of Britain in 1940 we would have lost the battle,the Nazis would have invaded and the world including America would have fallen.
The perfect war machine in service at just the right time.
Beautiful aircraft...based on the flight of a seagull.....
The hurricane gets a poor press in comparison to the Spitfire but i think many are aware this was the plane that really saved the day, especially as they were able to patch it up alot quicker due to its construction of wood and metal ,sometimes fabric coverings .
An upgraded propeller made it better and it accounted for 60% of the kills in the Battle of Britain.
The spitfire though is one bloody beautiful looking plane, if we had direct injection like the germans instead of carbs the Spitfire probably would have been untouchable.
The Guy Martin documentary about building the Spitfire is one of the best i've seen .
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I'm surprised it's going to auction. Surely something like this is priceless and should be in a national museum somewhere (unless the expectation is that a museum will buy it rather than a private collector - haven't read article).
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I'm surprised it's going to auction. Surely something like this is priceless and should be in a national museum somewhere (unless the expectation is that a museum will buy it rather than a private collector - haven't read article).
There are quite a few airworthy Spitfires around, IWM in Duxford run around 5. These fly regularly during their airshows. There are 2 - 2 seaters in the UK I believe, which you can book a flight in. Will cost you a cool £17,000. Battle of Britain memorial flight run another 4 and 2 Hurricanes which are far rarer. Not forgetting my favorite the mighty Lanc where there only 2 airworthy examples left. 1 in the battle of Britain memorial flight and the other in Canada. There is another in East Anglia which is privatly owned by a couple of farmers who bought an old RAF base.They opened a museum to bomber command in memory of their brother who was killed on a mission. Currently its not yet airworthy, although I think they are trying to raise around £2,000,000 to put her back in the sky. There is a web site listing all the airworthy, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts, War Hawks etc
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Thank God for Frank Mitchell and his invention of the Spitfire.
It is no exageration to say that aircraft litererally saved the world!
Had it not been around during the Batlle of Britain in 1940 we would have lost the battle,the Nazis would have invaded and the world including America would have fallen.
The perfect war machine in service at just the right time.
Beautiful aircraft...based on the flight of a seagull.....
America would never have fallen to either Germany or Japan. They were too strong, too able to manufacture materiel and troops for that. The Russians would have eventually beaten the Germans too.
Worst case scenario for them is control of the pacific region with a Soviet dominated Europe.
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Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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If.the Fuerher had stuck to the original plan of invading us then the oil fields.of the Middle East then joining the Japanese in India thereby conquering Europe and Asia then it.would.have been a different world. America would have.been isolated.and still a.neutral, militarily weak country at that point as was Russia.
Plenty of.oil.and.winning.the arms.race.for.nuclear.weapons.could.have.seen an entirely different.world.....had we lost.the Battle.of.Britain and.Hitler had not lost.the.plot.
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Nein Herr Doktor, I
If.the Fuerher had stuck to the original plan of invading us then the oil fields.of the Middle East then joining the Japanese in India thereby conquering Europe and Asia then it.would.have been a different world. America would have.been isolated.and still a.neutral, militarily weak country at that point as was Russia.
Plenty of.oil.and.winning.the arms.race.for.nuclear.weapons.could.have.seen an entirely different.world.....had we lost.the Battle.of.Britain and.Hitler had not lost.the.plot.
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The battles of the skies were crucial. If we had lost that we would not have been able to supply air cover for the convoys, no supplies would have got through and no American troops would have been able to land in the UK.
The Germans could have walked into the east coast of America cities as most of the US fleet was in the pacific. The US only had about a 100,000 strong military at the time - very weak indeed and poor quality as well
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The battles of the skies were crucial. If we had lost that we would not have been able to supply air cover for the convoys, no supplies would have got through and no American troops would have been able to land in the UK.
The Germans could have walked into the east coast of America cities as most of the US fleet was in the pacific. The US only had about a 100,000 strong military at the time - very weak indeed and poor quality as well
How exactly were the Germans or Japanese going to transport the hundreds of thousands of troops and tonnes of equipment required across a minimum of 3,000 miles of ocean in order to invade the US? Getting 100 miles from the South Coast to Normandy was tricky enough.
There was not a chance in hell that America was ever going to be invaded, and with their resources, industrial capacity, knowledge base and ability to wage war nobody would ever have seriously tried to do it to them, not to mention the heavily armed civilian population that would have needed even more troops to pacify.
We'd have ended up with the same Cold War situation, only with a Soviet Bloc comprising most of Western Europe too.
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Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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How exactly were the Germans or Japanese going to transport the hundreds of thousands of troops and tonnes of equipment required across a minimum of 3,000 miles of ocean in order to invade the US? Getting 100 miles from the South Coast to Normandy was tricky enough.
There was not a chance in hell that America was ever going to be invaded, and with their resources, industrial capacity, knowledge base and ability to wage war nobody would ever have seriously tried to do it to them, not to mention the heavily armed civilian population that would have needed even more troops to pacify.
We'd have ended up with the same Cold War situation, only with a Soviet Bloc comprising most of Western Europe too.
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They would have had the British fleet to transport them. The Atlantic would have been clear and they would have had a free run. America at that time wasn't the powerhouse it is today, their manufacturing capacity wasn't up to strength at the time.
They would have captured the main east coast cities and it would have paralysed the country. Game over. Hitler did have a plan to do just this
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They would have had the British fleet to transport them. The Atlantic would have been clear and they would have had a free run. America at that time wasn't the powerhouse it is today, their manufacturing capacity wasn't up to strength at the time.
They would have captured the main east coast cities and it would have paralysed the country. Game over. Hitler did have a plan to do just this
The British fleet would have been scuttled long before the Germans got hold of it, even if it was big enough to transport a couple of hundred thousand troops, which it wasn't.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Let's not forget the Germans were on the verge of atomic bomb and had intercontinental ballistic missiles in V2. They would have nuked the yanks into.submission.
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