Low flying Spitfire

[zibbledy]

fantastic!

[Dokker62]

A wonderful elegant manoeuvre perfectly performed in one of the most awesome and exciting aircraft ever built. Cannot stop watching it.

[darkmossie633]

best side ways on low fly Spitfire vid i have seen!

-wel done!

[RainbowManification]

In my opinion the Hawker Hurricane did most of the dirty work in the allied victory in europe in WW2. The spitfire got most of the glory, but still was an important part of history.

[TopGunSGA]

@RainbowManification Well it was a team effect in the Battle of Britain. The Spitfire took on the fighters so the Hurricane could take care of the bombers

[NO1SNIPER2010]

that plane saved europe and america from hitler what an amzing plane

[xjraus]

My uncle was a fighter pilot for the RAF and shot down 2 German aircrafts unfortunitly it was in 1968 he was court marshalled.

[PubicMen]

The finest machine ever built, we get them flying over our house quite alot because people like flying them over the new forest.

[roosterinboro]

Beautiful aircraft, the Brits got it right with the Spitfire. Too bad a war had to inspire aircraft like the Spit, the Mustang, Corsair, etc...

[ShakyCameraPictures]

This very spitfire is a Photo-recon varient - A Mark XI.

In the video, this very aeroplane is registered G-MKXI and kept at North Weald aerodrome, owned by Peter Teichman. When this shot was taken in the late 1990's, however the aircraft was being flown by the late Mark Hanna and was maintained by the Old Flying Machine Company and based here at Duxford.

[fourechodog]

It's a later mark, pointy vert. stab and Griffon engine cowling. STILL beutiful though... The MkI through IX Spits are the most beutiful flying machines EVER built. Period.

[rlgdestroyu]

@fourechodog I have to agree they are gorgeous, but the P-51D is just as beautiful.

[fourechodog]

I read an interview of an old Battle of Britain veteran. He was 85 at the time. He said that if he could go for one more airplane ride, pick anything he wanted it would be a Mk. IX Spit because the flew so sweet. Then he said, "But,if you told me there would be Messerschmitts waiting for me up there... I'd take a P-51!'

[audigod]

Actually that wasn't a griffin, it was a Merlin 70. By the looks of it, its a PR. XI. Look at the bulged chin right under the prop. They had to fit a larger oil tank and thats why it has the bulged appearance. It also has a retractable tale wheel.

[FrostbiteUK]

Beautiful

[ooogaboooga172]

if i remember correctly you can indentify a MkV from a MkIX by looking at the exhaust outlets protruding from the engine, the V has three either side whereas the IX has eight i think

[ovemunk]

You can't really use that ID method more because they interchange engines theese days. To me it looks more like a PR XI, the slight bulge right under the propeller seems to indicate that and it looks to me to be paninte blue or grey overall

[TopGunSGA]

I would agree with the PR XI as it has a pointed rudder and retractable tail wheel

[audigod]

MK IX has 12 exhaust collector, 6 per side. MK V's had 3 per side.

[DazDaMan]

@audigod

Later Mk.Vs DID have the 12 exhaust stubs fitted.

[audigod]

@DazDaMan

Most likely on the late Vc's and LF Vb's im assuming but either way look at the chin on this one....it has a bulged chin which was for the larger oil tank on the X and XI.

[DazDaMan]

@audigod

It's the only flying Pr.XI Spitfire, PL965. A true combat veteran with some 40 trips over Germany to her credit.

There's only 4 Pr.XIs in existence, two in museums, one under restoration to fly, and this one.

[bamsawa]

is that the mk.V?

[ooogaboooga172]

looks like a MkII i think, the MkV has the Hispano cannons in the wings

[ironderby]

i feel so proud of the british warfare when i see them, i love the sound

[SquadronScramble]

Fucking fantastic! What a sight and sound!

Rule Britannia!

[BreathDoctor]

You'd should've seen the Lancaster when it was outside of town. Static Display all morn, and afternoon. Then, a fire-up-taxi, and take off. 4 Merlins at full throttle. It was amazing. The pilot then buzzed the field. Stunning. My Wifes Uncle helped re-wire the one flying in Canada.

[FuturePilotGrrrl]

awesome.

[warbird417]

Great plane and a great sound. Good video aswell!!!

[Seidemann]

One of the most sexy airplanes of WWII together with the Corsair, ME109, the P-51D.

[snowbiker111]

the old warplanes remind me of muscle cars...

[bowser515]

That is certainly a spitfire, not a 109 pedrojosesantos.

[pedrojosesantos]

Unfortunatly that's not a Spitfire, that bird is a bf109 with a Merlin engine

[TheUploader1]

The Spitfire will always be in my heart!And I hope that the legend of the Spitfire will live on forever!

[MartijnMX]

hmmm... i think 3m?

[centurey8901]

The best fighter of WW2

[336thDoodle]

That's what you think Centurey8901

[Yamieguy64]

The only fighter you could put on the top 5 list in 1939 AND 1945!

[FraserTheMentalist]

That's the most beautiful sound in the world, and what it stands for is suitably encompassed in all that is the spitfire. When i see it perform the roll at the end of the pass, with the sun glinting off it's wings and fuselage, I swell with pride for the fact that i am british.

[WashingtonXJ]

Why was there no cut out on the barrell role? There was a scene like this from Battle of Britain and the motor cut for a second.

[kristoffersweden]

That only happens to engines who don't have fuel-injection. When they go into zero G or negative G, like in a roll, the flow of the fuel is disrupted and the engine cuts for a brief time until the engine goes back to positive G's.

[WashingtonXJ]

yeah I know I fly for a living - but I thought the spitfire was carb equiped.

[thewritingwriterof89]

the early marks were

[amoswt]

It reminds me of the seen from "a bridge to far".With the boy on the bike in Holand.

[betochon]

Sounds so good

[hyattandy]

u gotta love that

[blake701]

All Merlins had superchargers fitted

[Teddyboy53Rocker]

The most unatural thing in the world is a straight line, even the horizon is curved, look at that beuty not a straight line on it, well done R J Mitchell

[xp7181]

that merlin sound(spitfire+mustang+mosquit­o)was

for people living occupied europe,the sound of freedom coming.

think about it.

i've talked to people who lived under the nazi heel.

[wildhorseshadwell]

i know any war is horrible but the sound of the merlin wether it be spitfire lacaster or whichever plane they were fitted to if you are a true brit just makes your heart skip a beat no sound like it or ever will be the sound of freedom a thing forgotten in modern day brittain with all the modern monitoring cctv identity cards we are the nazis we faught against !!!

[Irvine5312x6ma]

These are the sexiest babies worldwide!!! Nothing can beat those sexy lines of that era!!!

[mmartini50]

You beauty!

[SmiertSpionem]

Ohbaby!

[robbie5380]

sorry my mistake i read up on it and they did make some modifications to some merlins that where shipped to america that had the supercharger!

[robbie5380]

the merlin 27litre V12 never had a supercharger.. germans where first to develop them

[Serveck]

Do a barrel roll!

[thistlewarrior]

Planes from that era man you cant beat that sound when the supershargers whine kicks in!

[FASpitfire]

oh yah...

[devil505ni]

What a Beautiful sound!

[weaverflytyer]

god thse things r sexy

[martin4tdi]

great sound, beautiful plane

[ThePhantomMajor]

The evocative chorus of the old Merlin - there's nothing better than the sound of each piston firing ... HAVE ALWAYS & WILL ALWAYS HAVE GOOSE BUMPS WHEN I HEAR THAT SOUND!!!!!!!

[blewett76]

gota love it

[blewett76]

i would be scared to hell to be germans in world war II,merlins are a beautiful noise but for the germans,,haha well that was a sign of,,,,watch out,or else ur gonna be creameddd

[grazyarnie]

great speech of Yours...creameddd german peoples...yeah.....hahahaha...­you are funny.

Go and love the sounds of death....I like the enginesounds of the Mustang, of the Spitfire, of the Messerschmitt, of the FockeWulf...but not the damm Ratatatatatatata....

[countrywideboy]

loverly noise..

[lonympics]

It is not dumb people who get conned on the internet. It is people who have trust. It does make you clever to be mugger or a slimy con artist. It makes you evil. I allways blame the abuser.

[jona1188]

gota be 1 of the best machines ever built snds awsome too!!

[les24574]

Vickers armstrong???? Surely you mean Supermarine!

[spookler]

Edited, cheers!

[Siwing558]

@spookler

Supermarine were already owned by Vickers-Armstrong by the start of the war and all aircraft were named as Vickers Supermarine, so you're both right, sort of.

[merlinmac]

Vickers Supermarine Spitfire is the proper title, Supermarine was a small subsidary of Vickers.

[DazDaMan]

@les24574

Vickers-Supermarine....

[LANCASTERB1]

listen to that merlin

[madeljacky]

Till you hit the deck!

[beastinblack]

how low can you go?

[Dieternern]

wow how low was that