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  • First Spitfire flight for pilot Neville Croucher, 91
  • bearGrease
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    BBC Vid

    They don’t make them like that anymore.

    Posted 9 years ago
    hora
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    EIGHT HUNDRED combat hours?

    **** off! No way. If true mental. Surely a typo?

    Posted 9 years ago
    ernie_lynch
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    Nice story 🙂

    Posted 9 years ago
    augustuswindsock
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    Fantastic story, Neville, we salute you!

    Posted 9 years ago
    hammyuk
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    The Hurricane pilots outnumbered the Spit’s 20-1 and flew in all weathers, 24hrs a day.
    The also took out far more enemy planes than the Spit’s ever did.

    Posted 9 years ago
    jambalaya
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    Wonderful. Thanks for posting.

    Posted 9 years ago
    PJM1974
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    The Hurricane pilots outnumbered the Spit’s 20-1 and flew in all weathers, 24hrs a day.
    The also took out far more enemy planes than the Spit’s ever did.

    That’s not quite correct – total Hurricane production numbered 14,583 while Spitfires for the RAF alone accounted for 20,351 aircraft. During the Battle of Britain, Hurricane pilots accounted for 1,593 out of the 2,739 claimed victories.

    That all said, top effort from Neville there!

    Posted 9 years ago
    bearGrease
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    91 yo and 800 hours and he still asks “All this for me? I was just a baker’s boy….”. Like I said cast from a different mould.

    Posted 9 years ago
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