Farnboro John
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Look at this beauty........
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-en...return-to-goodwood-after-round-the-world-trip
I was at Goodwood today: pix later. I managed to confine the tear to one eye until the pilot got out of the Spit and his wife rushed him....
It's a heck of a thing to take the classic short-range WWII interceptor -only one engine, mind - and fly it successive long distances, often over water(including the very very cold Bering Strait), occasionally over sandy deserts, jungles, pine forests...
The Spitfire arrived back at Goodwood in the company of two of the Red Arrows but they were rightly throttled back and all we could hear was the even and evocative snarl of the Rolls Royce Merlin running like a sewing machine despite its serious workout.
In an era when most things have been done, and redone, and then done again, this was something a bit different. And really rather magnificent. :t:
John