Surprise visitor ..............

[Hagar]

Hanging around the fence at Shoreham - as I do - waiting to see what turns up. That sounds familiar. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

     

                             

That was a piece of luck as I almost left 15 minutes earlier. Persistence pays off in the end.

[C]

What a nice surprise for a Saturday afternoon...

[flyboy 28]

Last one's a winner, Doug. Great shots.

[beaky]

Nice bit of luck there... she's beautiful.
How many of those trainer variants are still airworthy, anybody know?

[cspyro21]

As James said, that last one is great Hagar. Shoreham looks like such a beautiful place to live, and the addition of a Spitfire on a beautiful backdrop would never fail to please....  8)

[C]

Nice bit of luck there... she's beautiful.
How many of those trainer variants are still airworthy, anybody know?

4 in the UK, one or two in the states...

[Hagar]

Thanks chaps. I rather like that last one myself.
I spent an enjoyable day at Shoreham today & this was the icing on the cake. I should have plenty more to post soon as it's the Airbourne 'do' at Eastbourne in a couple of weeks. Just hope the weather holds out.

4 in the UK, one or two in the states...

Thanks Charlie. I was hoping you'd confirm that. For airworthy Spitfires this site seems to be pretty much up-to-date. http://www.militaryairshows.co.uk/spitaw.htm

UK
ML407 G-LFIX Tr.IX Carolyn Grace, IWM, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. (This one)
MJ627 G-BMSB Tr.IX Maurice and Peter Bayliss, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, UK.
PT462 G-CTIX Tr.IX Anthony Hodgson, Dragon Flight, Private strip, North Wales, UK.
IAC-161 formerly PV202 G-CCCA T.IX Historic Flying Limited, Duxford (The one in Ozzy's sig)

USA
TE308 N308WK Tr.IXc Bill Greenwood, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
MT818 N58JE Tr.VIII Tillamook Naval Air Station Museum, Tillamook, Oregon, USA.

[ozzy72]

Lovely chubbly Doug

[Rifleman]

Great catch Doug......"some guys get all the luck"....to quote Rod Stewart, only I don't think he was singing about what you caught today........

[Willit Run]

Nice one!!

[thebrelon]

is there anyway to take the back seat for a flight?

I would, so much, be able to fly one such nice little thing...

great pics by the way, you lucky one

vince

[ozzy72]

Vince there is that possibility. It costs a fair few quid and the waiting list is about 4 years at the moment

[thebrelon]

do you have any web sites or adress ozzy please?

it was a project we had with few friends, riding our bike from paris to duxford or wherever, camping, go for a lifetime memorable flight on board the spit, and back...

4 years should be enough to convince my bank...

vince

[ozzy72]

http://www.ml407.co.uk/

[TSC.]

Now thats weird, only yesterday afternoon in FS9 I took a Spit from Exeter to Shoreham of all places spooky.

Great shots Doug.

Cheers,

TSC.