Vintage planes and F cars on a lazy sunday afternoon in England

beautiful! I love those grass runways.

I attended the largest gathering of spitfires since WW2 at Duxford back in 98. Nothing beats the sound of a spitfire.

 

Nice! Love hot planes and cool cars.

Those traildraggers are the bomb!

 

Cept for maybe a P-51. I went with my dad (B-17 pilot) in his last year (2003) to an 8th Air Force reunion & took my last photo of him in front of a revving Mustang on the runway at the WWII air show. It was a good day.

 

Nice pics Andy. Shame we didn't get up in the planes, but heres looking forwards to the next one!

 

very nice pics.... i am an A&P, and seeing those aircraft front that era is like seeing how things "used to be". the simpler things were alot better in some ways!

 

Karen,

That's perhaps the warmest reflection i 've ever read on this forum. I'm sure your dad felt the same way. Good on you!

 

wow what a day.

 

All things considered, the Mustangs and the Spits should sound about the same.... they both have the same Rolls Royce Merlin powerplants...

ANY day involving warbirds is a good day Combining that with a lasting memory of your dad in a situation that for him was that extra bit special must have been very special for you.

Dave

 

Here is the two-seater Spit that did a lot of the filming in the Battle of Britain movie.

Second pic is a rare fly-over in Colorado with a P-51D and the Osh Kosh Grand Champion British Fairey Firefly.
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EXCELLENT!!! The Fairey Firefly was always one of my favorites. I liked the secondary enclosed cockpit in the back. Always wanted to build a giant scale model of one of those but never got around to it. I think that I have a small plastic model of one that I picked up at a hobby shop when they were selling off some older stuff from the back room. Must have been a real treat to see that pair roaring down low on the deck!

 

I have a lot more pics. Let me know if you want them sent to you.

 

WOW, those are great pics. They should have the cars race!! Wouldnt want to tear up the grass though. I heard about a ford GT racing a Spitfire. The plane won

 

I saw that plane too, Brett (mccprivate) gave me the oppurtunity to come along and help out at that show, I got to help push the Fairey Firefly to a sopt where it could start its engine and taxi onto the runway. Very cool expierience indeed.

 

I love those pics. I would really like to see some old F cars and British cars in there with the planes.

 

if you guys like the sound of high performance aircraft engines you have to go to the Reno Air Races, theres nothing else like it

 

I love those planes! But all the Italian cars...where are the Lotus'???? LOL

Ken