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Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 12:05 pm
by ozzy72
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Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 12:31 pm
by Flying Trucker
Nice...very nice...thanks for taking us along Mark... <<q

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 12:46 pm
by jetjockyfly
Great images! Spitfire & Hurricane... absolute legends of the air! Thanx for sharing :D

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:23 pm
by wifesaysno
Duxford?

Very nice spits!

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:44 pm
by Fozzer
Last pic...

..the two-up, tandem Spit, on the left?

Paul... :mrgreen: ...!

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:59 pm
by C
Fozzer wrote:Last pic...

..the two-up, tandem Spit, on the left?

Paul... :mrgreen: ...!


Aye, the first aircraft to claim a kill on D-Day...

(it only had one seat, and cannons fitted on 6/6/44!)

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:10 am
by expat
Nice shots Mark.

So how much did Duxford extract form your depleted (post Legoland) wallet for the line walk...... <<q

Matt

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:05 am
by Fozzer
C wrote:
Fozzer wrote:Last pic...

..the two-up, tandem Spit, on the left?

Paul... :mrgreen: ...!


Aye, the first aircraft to claim a kill on D-Day...

(it only had one seat, and cannons fitted on 6/6/44!)


Whenever I see, what looks like, a 2-seater Spitfire I automatically think of Carolyn Grace's very attractive 2-seater Spitfire....>>> http://www.ml407.co.uk/

Paul... :D ...!

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:51 am
by Hagar
Fozzer wrote:
C wrote:
Fozzer wrote:Last pic...

..the two-up, tandem Spit, on the left?

Paul... :mrgreen: ...!


Aye, the first aircraft to claim a kill on D-Day...

(it only had one seat, and cannons fitted on 6/6/44!)


Whenever I see, what looks like, a 2-seater Spitfire I automatically think of Carolyn Grace's very attractive 2-seater Spitfire....>>> http://www.ml407.co.uk/

Paul... :D ...!

That's the one in Mark's photo. (ML407)

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:29 pm
by ozzy72
That is indeed the Grace Spitfire Doug. A personal favourite of mine. Walking the flight line for Emi and I came to a tenner, money well spent to get up close and personal and considering I don't have a DSLR camera meant I got these shots. I'll post some more a little later 8-)

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:01 pm
by OldAirmail
From time to time I turn around and look at a page from an old calendar that I pined to the corkboard behind my chair.

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Just another daydreamer.

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:52 pm
by C
OldAirmail wrote:From time to time I turn around and look at a page from an old calendar that I pined to the corkboard behind my chair.

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Just another daydreamer.


That Spitfire looks rather different now. It was involved in a fatal crash in 1998 (flying into the side of a hill IIRC), and has now been "restored" to a high back configuration. I have to admit I've never been quite comfortable with the resurrection of aeroplanes which, to all intents and purposes, have been destroyed, only for their identity to be re-used to add several zeros to the value of what is effectively a "new build" airframe.

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr249/ForkTailedDevil/Biggin%2011/biggin_UK5.jpg

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:35 pm
by expat
ozzy72 wrote:That is indeed the Grace Spitfire Doug. A personal favourite of mine. Walking the flight line for Emi and I came to a tenner, money well spent to get up close and personal and considering I don't have a DSLR camera meant I got these shots. I'll post some more a little later 8-)



A tenner, now that surprises me, I was expecting you to say twenty. Looks like I will be taking the walk in July then :dance:

Matt

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:47 pm
by ozzy72
You're going to be here for Legends then mate?

Re: Pure Porn (Merlin engines only)!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:23 pm
by beaky
I am going to lock the door, lower the shades, and have another look at these... :mrgreen: