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Title: american photo recon spitfie belly landing .
Post by: expat on May 24, 2013, 10:13:42 PM
This was posted over at WIX , thought you like to see it .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY&feature=share
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Post by: pipz on May 24, 2013, 10:37:06 PM
Outstanding!  :aok  :aok
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Post by: Arlo on May 24, 2013, 11:03:53 PM
Excellent. Thank you.  :)
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Post by: Oldman731 on May 24, 2013, 11:38:50 PM
Excellent. Thank you.  :)


Agreed.  Widely forwarded.

- oldman
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Post by: scott66 on May 25, 2013, 12:31:40 AM
I love footage like this...thank you sir..widely fwded as well :salute :aok
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Post by: 1sum41 on May 25, 2013, 01:51:43 AM
Very Cool! :aok
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Post by: zack1234 on May 25, 2013, 01:53:20 AM
That pilot is why Americans are proud of their country :old:
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Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 25, 2013, 02:21:33 AM
Very cool little film. The only thing that annoyed me though was how the author of the movie was a total squeaker but tried to speak in a manly low voice, failing miserably.
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Post by: -ammo- on May 25, 2013, 02:33:19 AM
Thanks for posting! Appreciate it!
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Post by: muzik on May 25, 2013, 04:56:29 AM
Awesome stuff.
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Post by: The Fury on May 25, 2013, 05:11:27 AM
Thanx for sharing that brill vid, when he watched that video and his face lit up with happiness made my day  :aok
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Post by: airbull on May 25, 2013, 05:48:27 AM
Thanks for sharing that, gave me a big smile seeing it. :aok :salute
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Post by: ozrocker on May 25, 2013, 06:21:01 AM
Great story :aok





                                                                                                                      :cheers: Oz
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Post by: Wayout on May 25, 2013, 06:43:29 AM
Best post in a long time.   :aok
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Post by: Wizer on May 25, 2013, 07:24:02 AM
Excellent move!!! Thanks for sharing.              :salute
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Post by: bortas1 on May 25, 2013, 07:31:49 AM
 :salute cool
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Post by: Badboy on May 25, 2013, 07:35:55 AM
This was posted over at WIX , thought you like to see it .

Great video, made my eyes water up, thanks for posting!

Badboy
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Post by: TOMCAT21 on May 25, 2013, 08:41:59 AM
 :aok
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Post by: BiPoLaR on May 25, 2013, 09:09:29 AM
Great video  :aok
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Post by: Midway on May 25, 2013, 09:19:34 AM
Great video, made my eyes water up, thanks for posting!

Badboy

:cry   :aok    :cry

:salute Lt. Col. Blyth :rock



 :old: :airplane: :joystick:
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Post by: R 105 on May 25, 2013, 09:31:44 AM
 That was great thank you for posting it.
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Post by: Triton28 on May 25, 2013, 09:32:24 AM
Very cool.  Thanks for sharing.   :aok
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Post by: FLOOB on May 25, 2013, 09:35:05 AM
When I learned of spitfires getting kills over 40k I thought to myself, the longer I live the more I learn that anything a wwII fighter could do a spitfire could do better. Now this.  :)
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Post by: mthrockmor on May 25, 2013, 09:39:46 AM
On a 1 to 10 it's about a 12.6.

boo
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Post by: BaldEagl on May 25, 2013, 10:36:56 AM
Great story.   :aok
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Post by: Daddkev on May 25, 2013, 10:37:53 AM
 :aok :aok :aok :aok Wat Cool!!!!!  :banana: :banana: :banana: :airplane: :airplane: :airplane: :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
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Post by: SAJ73 on May 25, 2013, 10:51:28 AM
Thanks for posting this little film, this was really something else.. :rock
Loved the pilots reaction when he realized he was watching the actual photage of his belly landing..  :aok
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Post by: Wizard on May 25, 2013, 08:00:07 PM
Very Cool ! 
Thanks for posting  :aok
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Post by: gyrene81 on May 25, 2013, 08:31:07 PM
now that was a cool vid... lol, fighter pilots argued with him about the range of his spit.
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Post by: MK-84 on May 25, 2013, 09:02:23 PM
Thank you for the post!  :aok
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Post by: Dace on May 25, 2013, 09:28:56 PM
Best post in a long time.   :aok

+1
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Post by: Zacherof on May 26, 2013, 11:04:28 AM
Best post in a long time.   :aok
I must try harder :D
 :bolt:
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Post by: HighTone on May 26, 2013, 11:20:07 AM
Loved it. Thanks for sharing.  :cheers:
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Post by: bcadoo on May 26, 2013, 01:55:10 PM
Fantastic!
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Post by: lyric1 on May 26, 2013, 02:33:40 PM
 :aok
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Post by: Getback on May 26, 2013, 02:52:27 PM
Wow! Just Wow!
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Post by: Bruv119 on May 26, 2013, 03:06:31 PM
awesome thanks for sharing expat!

 :cheers:
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Post by: Guppy35 on May 26, 2013, 11:38:25 PM
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 :)
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Post by: JimmyC on May 27, 2013, 12:04:23 AM
that was great!! TY

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

he knows!!
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Post by: Reaper90 on May 27, 2013, 06:16:34 PM
excellent vid.  :aok

thx for sharing that.... was great.....  :cheers:
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Post by: JimmyC on May 27, 2013, 11:20:30 PM
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..
 :salute Jimmy
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Post by: BaldEagl on May 27, 2013, 11:52:30 PM
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?
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Post by: Midway on May 27, 2013, 11:54:39 PM
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? :headscratch:


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

:headscratch:


:O You started your own business and are your own boss! :aok
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Post by: Jed on May 28, 2013, 11:31:52 AM
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
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Post by: Ack-Ack on May 28, 2013, 04:30:28 PM
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
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Post by: thedoom26 on May 28, 2013, 04:35:12 PM
 :salute :salute
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Post by: matt on May 29, 2013, 11:32:46 AM
 :aok
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Post by: lyric1 on May 30, 2013, 12:48:51 PM
Found some still shots & some in colour of the pilot & aircraft in the video.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24554019@N06/sets/72157619911531715/detail/