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Spitfire and Lancaster bomber get spectacularly close as they mark Armed Forces Day with flypast
UK Daily Mail ^
| 07/02/2018
| RICHARD SPILLETT
Posted on 07/02/2018 10:25:08 AM PDT by DFG
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:25:09 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
Awesome. Air races in Reno not that far off. 🛩🏁
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:28:51 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:29:37 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DFG
Look at the diameter of those props!
Spitfire has one Merlin, Lancaster has four.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:30:12 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: DFG
The right stuff....stiff upper lip...A piece of Cake.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:30:32 AM PDT
by
spokeshave2
(Formerly as spokeshave...now restarted after computer issues.)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:34:02 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: DFG
To remind the British they once defeated the islamist scourge in that part of the nazi alliance.
Now they’re right back in it again.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:35:25 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: DFG
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:36:54 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: onedoug
“To remind the British they once defeated the islamist scourge in that part of the nazi alliance.
Now theyre right back in it again.”
But this time, they don’t need any aircraft to do it. The Scourge is already “in-country!”
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:37:48 AM PDT
by
vette6387
To: spokeshave2
In the book "A piece of Cake"...the Spitfire pilots would disobey official regulations and re-focus their guns at 25 yards...not the required 400 yards.
The right stuff....stiff upper lip...A piece of Cake.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few...Sir Winston Churchill.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:39:54 AM PDT
by
spokeshave2
(Formerly as spokeshave...now restarted after computer issues.)
To: DFG
Netflix used to have a series called Plane Restoration. It was about some British builders who would find and restore these marvelous old craft. IIRC, there was a Mustang, a Hawker, a tri-wing Fokker and a few others. It was pretty interesting to watch.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:43:59 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
To: Steely Tom
"Spitfire has one Merlin, Lancaster has four."
Was working in a hangar at Hamilton airfield (Ontario), and they had a fully functioning Lancaster in their museum.
We had a fascinating chat with the mechanics working on the engines - it was a lot of fun (I'm an old powerplant guy).
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:44:26 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: Psalm 73
Was working in a hangar at Hamilton airfield (Ontario), and they had a fully functioning Lancaster in their museum. Sometime in 1991 or 1992 that Lancaster landed at Grand Forks AFB and stayed the night. The crew gave me a nose to tail tour. It was awesome.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:48:13 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:52:05 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Steely Tom
Nothing like the sound of a big v12 water cooled engine. Smooth running and naturally balanced.
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posted on
07/02/2018 10:56:59 AM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: OldMissileer
At an air show at Des Moines airport back in the early 80s, it was announced that a Vulcan bomber would fly in as a special guest. The Vulcan and crew (44th Rhodesia Squadron) had been at SAC near Omaha and both the Omaha and Des Moines radio stations did play by play of the take off and arrival.
The Vulcan was on final approach when the tower ordered the pilot to use the shorter crosswind runway which put the airplane nearly over our house.
The pilot was moving a bit too fast to use the short landing route and turned on the burners as he overshot the end of the concrete.
Wife and I watched as the plane made a sweep over the down town, followed by four black contrails. He got it right on the second try.
The next day, a British officer arrived by car from Omaha and asked the pilot about his landing.
“No problem, sir...no problem,” was the reply.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:08:37 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
The US had a major exercise with Britain many years ago, I think in the 60s. The Vulcan bombers were the only ones to successfully penetrate our air defenses and bomb their targets in the US.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:22:40 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: DuncanWaring
When the Brits play the Germans in soccer, the fans whistle the DAMBUSTERS THEME.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:34:15 AM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
To: DFG
Beautiful planes there. Well, not so much the Lanc, but ... yeah.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:03:52 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: DFG
Both those Airplanes use the same Engine, the Rolls Royce Merlin.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:07:13 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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