Thursday, May 06, 2010

SPITFIRE IN SKIES OVER BRIGG

The Spitfire from the Lincolnshire-based Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is due to make a special flypast over Brigg tomorrow (Friday) at 7.20pm - at the request of Brigg Amateur Social Historians (weather conditions permitting).
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3 comments:

Ken Harrison said...

'The Spitfire', Nige?

The BBMF has 5 Spitties - one (AB 910) being the famous Hibaldstow 'Waaf-Fly' Spitfire.

Last year, someone from the Scunny Telegraph reported, (something like)'the famous sound of the Merlin engine announced the fly-past of the Spitfire' In fact, it was the Spittie fitted with the Griffon engine - this aeroplane has the black and white 'D'-Day identication stripes underneath the wings. (put on all allied aircraft so they wouldn't be shot down by our own troops)

7 May 2010 at 01:38
Ken Harrison said...

....anyway, Nige, you need to be more CONSERVATIVE in your scribbling - 'IN SKIES' is a bit LIBERAL and superfluous. Do you expect the Spitfire to taxy down Barnard Ave, or sail by on the Ancholme?
I don't want to LABOUR the issue, but how many 'SKIES' do we have over Brigg - are they HUNG in layers with no overall majority?

...from the Acting Returning Officer for comments

7 May 2010 at 02:06
Christian Hilton said...

I just saw (early-mid afternoon) a pair of possibly Spitfires fly over Broughton allotments - yet like they were meandering, roughly from Scunthorpe/Appleby direction, towards the four prominent stacks of Brigg's power station, then veering hard left and disappearing from sight behind the trees between Broughton and Castlethorpe, & not to be seen emerging the other side, so likely veering back to the right - should have taken them right over Brigg.

I could not distinguish markings or even colour, although they were definitely single props and as close to the spitfire shape as any plane could be.

24 May 2010 at 16:11

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