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Ashbourne, headphones on, working away. Hear a roar over the music look up and whatever it was was low fast and prop powered. An almost maroon/brown colour?
Looked/sounded awesomez!
777 ❓
maroon/brown colour
that sir was a flying poo
😆 at qwerty!
Sounds the wrong colour for a Spit - and there aren't many. Lots of other similar Ww2 fighters in private ownership though, especially American ones.
Turcano?
wrightyson - MemberAn almost maroon/brown colour?
It was the latest, most inaccurate tackle of Ryan Stevenson's career.
Though not by a lot.
Sounds the wrong colour for a Spit - and there aren't many. Lots of other similar Ww2 fighters in private ownership though, especially American ones.
Not so rare, there are more flying now than in the 1950's.
Approximately 50 Spitfires and Seafires are airworthy with another 20 currently undergoing restoration to flying condition.
Colour does sound odd, most Spits would have a sky blue underside, the PR variant was pale blue all over, and the upper surface would nearly always be standard grey and green camo.
I have no idea what it was that flew over Dulverton earlier but it was absurdly loud (as in high speed, low jet) but appeared to be moving rather slowly?!?
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i very much doubt anyone would mistake a Chipmonk for a spitfire, they are pretty different! Absolutely love them though, I've towed up many times behind them when gliding although had to swap to Supermonks when I switched to open class as I needed the extra grunt.
To try to answer the op, what shape was the aircraft? Canopy, wings, long nose, radial / inline etc?
i very much doubt anyone would mistake a Chipmonk for a spitfire, they are pretty different! Absolutely love them though, I've towed up many times behind them when gliding although had to swap to Supermonks when I switched to open class as I needed the extra grunt.
To try to answer the op, what shape was the aircraft? Canopy, wings, long nose, radial / inline etc?
I just thought with so few about itd be in its way to an air show etc and the folk on here would say yup its probably off to ? It certainly looked like one but the colour threw me.
Probably easier to pinpoint if you mention where it was...
I heard from an ex RAF chap that an old plane was coming over from Canada and was offering public flights. It was either a Lancaster bomber or spitfire. I don't know anything about planes but there could be a link?
Err first word of the op?
Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Heading deeper into the peaks towards Buxton.
OP, was it one of these?
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Ill be dead honest here, it could well have been. I reckon if that shot by as whatever it was did, I could easily think that it was a spitfire!
Did it have semi-elliptical wings?
johnj2000 - Member
I heard from an ex RAF chap that an old plane was coming over from Canada and was offering public flights. It was either a Lancaster bomber or spitfire. I don't know anything about planes but there could be a link?
Lancaster. The only other airworthy example in the world, will be flying alongside our own Lanc later in the year, with the BBMF. First and last time it's going to happen.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/canadian-lanacaster-to-visit-uk?replies=3#post-5804210