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Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: faminz on August 27, 2002, 06:10:02 PM

Alan came round my place Monday night again and answered all the questions asked by us in this forum. In fact he had typed out answers...
I got him to read the answers into a recording device and prompted for extra insights to each question as well.
2 hours flew by....

I intend posting the replies somewhere as text and possibly as an mpeg recording (once I get it converted). There is over an hours recording!!!

Lots of very interesting war stories and insights on the spit to come...

To the guy who asked for infor re Tony Jonsson. Alan contacted a fellow old pilot here in NZ who remembered Tony well and is available to be contacted if required. Tony died not long ago unfortunately but I believe his son is still living here in NZ.
Contact me for further info.

couple of snippets of info from the 2 hours:
1. Alan NEVER used or trusted the rear view mirror on the Spit. It was slightly concave and gave a false impression. Trusting it or another pilot using it was a recipe to die!
2. He never saw a jap pilot bail, and in fact was unaware till I told him that they didnt generally carry chutes...
3. There were definitely 'monday' Spitfires. ie: a Spit that despite being checked out a technically exactly the same and to spec as all the other spits, just didnt feel right. You should hear what he did to one of these to make sure it couldnt be used!!!

more to come....

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: brendo on August 27, 2002, 06:44:34 PM

Great. Looking forwards to hearing about it.

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: Frodo on August 27, 2002, 07:23:25 PM

Thanks for the effort and be sure to thank him!I can't wait to read it.

Can you get him into A/H on a regular basis?:D

Frodo

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: lord dolf vader on August 27, 2002, 07:36:43 PM

ohh yea cant wait , thanks for the effort

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: Xjazz on August 27, 2002, 11:23:09 PM

Big S!

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: Virage on August 28, 2002, 06:17:27 AM

What a teaser! Looking forward to some great reading.

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: maltesh on August 28, 2002, 07:26:01 AM

Im sure it will be a great read. Though yet a newbie to AH, I always fly the so called 'dweeb' Spitfire IX. I hope I can improve my flying after reading your post :)

One more thing, in your earlier post on this topic, you had mentioned that he loved to fly Spitfire XIII (?). AH I believe doesn't have it for players to use or did I read something wrong? Well anyways, I guess I will get more answers once you post the interview.

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: Seeker on August 28, 2002, 09:33:41 AM

Thanks a lot!

Monday Spitfires eh? You mean they didn't hassle the crew chiefs saying "look; it says on this chart......"   :)

Title: Spit Ace Alan Peart reprise
Post by: Ghosth on August 28, 2002, 10:34:02 AM

Keep up the good work!

I hope everyone who knows a WWII Pilot is documenting as much as they can of his memories etc. Time is catching up with all of them.