Click on to the link below. Folks - hit the link below, to view a very comprehensive vidclip of the many Warbird aircraft that will be both flying and on static display in July, at Duxford airbase near Cambridge in the UK. Wish I could be there . For those unfamiliar with the former RAF Duxford base, it has the rather unique record of never having been bombed or strafed during WW2 by the Luftwaffe, despite lots of juicy RAF and later USAF targets being lined up. However, during the making of the movie ‘Battle Of Britain’ in the mid-60s, it was the venue for lots of cinematographic mayhem, with many mock-up Spitfires and Hurricanes being destroyed on the ground mainly by Me 109 lookalikes loaned (complete with pilots) by the Spanish Air Force. Astute afficianados of WW2 stuff will no doubt have noted that these Spanish ‘Me 109s’ didn’t look quite right when viewed front-on, although viewed from the rear they looked genuine enough. Reason is that these planes were built in Spain under licence post WW2, when supplies of the kosher Daimler-Benz inverted V12 engines were no longer available. So Spanish manufacturer Hispano Aviacion used upright Rolls-Royce Merlin V12s instead! player.vimeo/video/93587997
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:19:39 +0000
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