WROOoooooM!

[OldRecon]

WROOoooooM! (http://alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/ohmygodSpitfire%20pass.wmv)

rofl

[Seoulstriker]

WROOoooooM! (http://alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/ohmygodSpitfire%20pass.wmv)

rofl

:lol: :lol: :lol:

did the pilot intend to do that? it looked like a very close call. :|

[anonymous individual]

rofl rofl rofl

[OldRecon]

Apparently experienced Spitfire pilots during WW-2, used to start retracting the landing a fraction of a seccond before affirmative liftoff.
Giving the aircraft a little extra kickoff in speed from the body of the aircraft pumping towards the ground.
Then on liftoff those pilots would continue to fly low over the ground for a little while before pull up, in order to capitalize on the same groundbound and drag reducing areodynamical effect employed by some species of low flying birds, in order to build upp extra speed that could then be converted into a faster climb ut to operational altitude.
Still I must say it looked somewhat hairy in this clip to say the least.
In a way it reminds me about some american movie from the 70's, about a bomber-squadron stationed in Italy where crews were kept on operations continuosly by their CO until they either dropped or went mad.
In one scene one of those pilots that went mad borrowed a seaplane, whith which he flew so low he killed a squadron mate (near a beach or something like that, looked like the propeller chopped the head of the poor sob).
In another scene in the same film, another of those that broke and went mad threw a whore out of a top floor window in a brothel...
(Can't remember the title of the film though - Yet a great movie it was.)

[Roger Rabbit]

Catch 22

Great movie, even better book.

[Seoulstriker]

Apparently experienced Spitfire pilots during WW-2, used to start retracting the landing a fraction of a seccond before affirmative liftoff.
Giving the aircraft a little extra kickoff in speed from the body of the aircraft pumping towards the ground.
Then on liftoff those pilots would continue to fly low over the ground for a little while before pull up, in order to capitalize on the same groundbound and drag reducing areodynamical effect employed by some species of low flying birds, in order to build upp extra speed that could then be converted into a faster climb ut to operational altitude.
Still I must say it looked somewhat hairy in this clip to say the least.
In a way it reminds me about some american movie from the 70's, about a bomber-squadron stationed in Italy where crews were kept on operations continuosly by their CO until they either dropped or went mad.
In one scene one of those pilots that went mad borrowed a seaplane, whith which he flew so low he killed a squadron mate (near a beach or something like that, looked like the propeller chopped the head of the poor sob).
In another scene in the same film, another of those that broke and went mad threw a whore out of a top floor window in a brothel...
(Can't remember the title of the film though - Yet a great movie it was.)

nice. as long as the pilot didn't 'wing it' when taking off. ;)

[memphiz]

rofl that was great

[Beowulf]

that's awesome.

[Uncle Sam]

Hell, I pissed my pants... :)

[California Joe]

*Backing slowly away from Rip.*

[Uncle Sam]

*Backing slowly away from Rip.*

What ! :lol:

[Salty Dog]

i pissed my pants....but not because of the spitfire. :oops:

[California Joe]

Incontinent bastards.

[Salty Dog]

Incontinent bastards.

quiet old man!

[Rantanplan]

**** Me!!!!

rofl rofl rofl

[Ratamacue]

rofl

[usa320]

ive seen better.

rofl

[Merik]

Hey thats the guy from the Speed Channel. He does a really cool show on vintage racecars, cant recall the name though. But I do know that that was just totally wicked. I have never seen anything like that, especially something for tv. Very, very nice find Old Recon.

[Kenshin]

yeah your f****ed rofl

[Beowulf]

Incontinent bastards.

Hell all the cool people are pissing their pants nowadays.....

[California Joe]

"Go ahead, piss your pants. All the cool guys are doing it." ;)

[Vance]

"Go ahead, piss your pants. All the cool guys are doing it." ;)
''If pissing your pants is cool, I'm Miles Davis...''

[Fox2]

Pilot: Uuuuh.....did I forget to set my trim to "Takeoff" again? :oops:

[Salty Dog]

yeah, go ahead piss your pants, piss all over yourselves, i know you wanna be like me and ripcord!

[Haiw]

Am I the only person here with control over his natural body functions? :roll:

Damn hippies.

[Fox2]

Am I the only person here with control over his natural body functions? :roll:

Damn hippies.

rofl

I think some of them are referring to the movie "Billy Madison."

[Salty Dog]

Am I the only person here with control over his natural body functions? :roll:

Damn hippies.

rofl

I think some of them are referring to the movie "Billy Madison."

i think you're a f***in liar. are you a f***in liar? well are ya?!?!?! :P

[Fox2]

i think you're a f***in liar. are you a f***in liar? well are ya?!?!?! :P

If I answer "yes," can we still be friends? :lol:

[Salty Dog]

i think you're a f***in liar. are you a f***in liar? well are ya?!?!?! :P

If I answer "yes," can we still be friends? :lol:


sure, i will make an exception! :P

[Merik]

Victory by Design, thats the name of the show that the brit hosts.

[OldRecon]

As for the shown clip there's maybe a sad story behind it in that it may have been one of the last appearances of the pilot of the Spitfire, Mark Hannah, before he crashed while displaying a Buchon during an airshow in Spain.

More information on that can be found:

Here (http://www.ofmc.co.uk/mah/mah.htm), here (http://www.ofmc.co.uk/mah/obituary.htm) or here (http://www.ofmc.co.uk/mah/mahinfo.htm).

http://www.ofmc.co.uk/images/mah.jpg

http://www.ofmc.co.uk/images/spitfire.jpg

[cut]

Victory by Design, thats the name of the show that the brit hosts.

he does an aviation show on english TV which I manage to see once in a blue moon.


and the pilot died on my birthday, joy. :|