Spitfire song

[Phil Waterman]

Well done little bit of film editing. Not having a face book account could not access the rest of the information (correction here is the link outside facebook http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/ ). Wish they would use a little more of the real sound and less of the music, but then again I'm probably not their target market. But having watch the little video I'll get the movie out and watch in this evening.

Through the years there have been various movies with low level passes of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs. An the sound is something special in many of them but they never quite match the real thing.

Be it a Merlin, Rolls Royce, Packard version there is just something special about the real thing flying close overhead. Completely different from a radial engine.

Just last fall we were doing a vehicle display for the NH Army National Guard Retirement luncheon happened to be located just off the end of runway for regional airport so all day long small prop planes were flying over head. Nobody paid much attention, but then something different started up the runway from the far end of the field coming towards us and every head turned and we watched as a P40 came up the runway and flew less than 100 ft over our heads. Once that cleared I heard the deep rumble of a mulit engined plane approaching and we watched as a B17 flew by and was joined by the P40.

Cheers Phil