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).
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)
....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?
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.
'The Spitfire', Nige?
ReplyDeleteThe 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)
....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?
ReplyDeleteI 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
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.