american photo recon spitfie belly landing .

[Dace]

Best post in a long time.   

+1

[Zacherof]

Best post in a long time.   

I must try harder
 

[HighTone]

Loved it. Thanks for sharing. 

[bcadoo]

Fantastic!

[lyric1]

 

[Getback]

Wow! Just Wow!

[Bruv119]

awesome thanks for sharing expat!

 

[Guppy35]

I swear I've seen that before.  Not sure where.  Great stuff to see again though

Note what he said about the Spitfire at the end BTW.  All the Spit haters won't like it

[JimmyC]

that was great!! TY

`That was the sweetest airplane, every pilot should fly a spitfire at least once!`

he knows!!

[Reaper90]

excellent vid. 

thx for sharing that.... was great..... 

[JimmyC]

In the film clip he said he flew from Mount Farm Air Base 7 miles south of oxford..
as a local to oxford it got me interested..
checked it out with google etc, it is just down the road (10 miles)from my place  (although I have moved to NZ now for a bit)
I even think I`ve been to a free rave on the site lol
anyway a website showed all the RAF airfields in oxfordshire, and as there was one in my home village so I checked it out..
oakley, I did not know much about it..stories of bombers (yanks)..old boys down the pub ..so I was intrigued to find out Operational Training Unit 11 operated there, training No 75 (NZ) RAF in wellingtons...
my wifes grandfather flew wellingtons for No75
and was trained in my home village in the uk... he must have been down my local ...3 generations before me and my wifes path crossed..
its just feels a bit freeky, because their family comes from a small village in New Zealand, mine from a small village in England but our family history seems to have crossed already..
small world
Just thought I`d share...still digging around for more info..
  Jimmy

[BaldEagl]

my wifes grandfather flew wellingtons for No75
and was trained in my home village in the uk... he must have been down my local ...3 generations before me and my wifes path crossed..
its just feels a bit freeky, because their family comes from a small village in New Zealand, mine from a small village in England but our family history seems to have crossed already..
small world

Off topic but this is freeky; I started at a job several years ago on the same day as another guy who was hired to do the same job I was.  It turned out the business owner was the next door neighbor of my old boss and had, along with his wife, been to dinner the night before with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law (my wife's sister) and my brother-in-law was the ex-boss of the guy who started the job the same day as me.

Woowooowoo.

What's the likelyhood in a city of 3 million?

[Midway]

Off topic but this is freeky; I started at a job several years ago on the same day as another guy who was hired to do the same job I was.  It turned out the business owner was the next door neighbor of my old boss and had, along with his wife, been to dinner the night before with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law (my wife's sister) and my brother-in-law was the ex-boss of the guy who started the job the same day as me.

Woowooowoo.

What's the likelyhood in a city of 3 million?

Huh?


Brother in law, ex bosses sister, neighbor, another guy who, etc.. etc..




You started your own business and are your own boss!

[Jed]

Very cool post...!     I don't mean to hijack the the thread, but I have a question somewhat related.   I have a picture from my grandfather of a C-47 that crash landed on a beach in the pacific. He was 77th Infantry.    It maybe Guam or okinawa not sure.  It is a very cool shot , black and white. I will try and post.  Does anyone know how I could look up a record of such a thing?  There are no markings visible, but I would imagine somewhere there are records of crash landings of the sort?    Thanks for any leads...    Hub

[Ack-Ack]

now that was a cool vid... lol, fighter pilots argued with him about the range of his spit.

That's because the fighter jocks didn't know he was flying a modified Spitfire with extra fuel tanks.

ack-ack