Top Gear - The Spitfire Experience

katdogfizzow · #1 10-13-2011, 01:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGkQXxnS8M

I want to do this!

http://www.flights4all.com/search_ex...dvert_id=26995

PeterPanPan · #2 10-13-2011, 01:56 PM

Me too, but the link you gave is for a flight with a Spitfire. You are in a helicopter alongside it.

What you want is this ... http://www.boultbeeflightacademy.co....raft/spitfire/ ... and a spare few thousand £/$

PPP

322Sqn_Dusty · #3 10-13-2011, 02:25 PM

Dunno, but imho the heli Experience is the closest most will ever come to a Spitfire in flight.
Apart from the Top Gear flight..have you seen the McGregor brothers? From the humble Tigermoth -> Harvard-> the Spit....

katdogfizzow · #4 10-13-2011, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

Me too, but the link you gave is for a flight with a Spitfire. You are in a helicopter alongside it.

What you want is this ... http://www.boultbeeflightacademy.co....raft/spitfire/ ... and a spare few thousand £/$

PPP

YES! Cool thanks!

£4500 +VAT?! HOLY CRAP!

#5 10-13-2011, 11:38 PM

Great! Now I hate the Top Gear "twat-trio" even more.

322Sqn_Dusty · #6 10-14-2011, 06:51 AM

The first thing that came in my mind by seeing the footage on TV:
crap why?...wow.. 3 two-seaters in formation?

Didn't know there were that many operational.

So why is it possible to fly with a P-51 in the Netehrlands and not with a Spitfire trainer if it comes over to the netherlands (legal issue right?).

senseispcc · #7 10-14-2011, 12:32 PM

One of this Spitfire is from Holland the two other I do not know and this is a cut out sequence from a Top Gear the 3 from Top Gear against 3 Germans counter parts and in they arrive in this Spitfires when the Germans arrive in cars. It is the only interesting part of the show. In the "do not mention the war" spirit.

322Sqn_Dusty · #8 10-14-2011, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by senseispcc

One of this Spitfire is from Holland .... It is the only interesting part of the show. In the "do not mention the war" spirit.

Oh I surely hoped we in the Netherlands would get one two seater

Sadly the two-seaters are based in the UK and Ireland, and these are only painted as the rNlAf H.xx (at one time H99 and 98 were painted). There's only one Spitfire still flying over here. Earlier this year it had to make an emergency landing at Woensdrecht after engine trouble. Not sure of the current status.

T}{OR · #9 10-14-2011, 01:53 PM

Classic TG.

Quote:

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Great! Now I hate the Top Gear "twat-trio" even more.

Yeah, I hate Clarkson too, for having the best job in the world.

skouras · #10 10-14-2011, 02:15 PM

my favorite was always with the Apache vs Lotus