Talking cockpits Spit vs Bf109

[Bryan21cag]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

yeah, it was East Kirkby some years ago. I wonder whether he would be allowed to do this today, with all the Health & Safety malarkey though

Superb flying and superbly elegant machine. There's something quite romantic and gentle about the forms of a Spitfire that always fascinated me.

times 1000 sir

All those old warbirds to me just seem so magestic. I cant really put my finger on it....... maybe its just aircraft and flying for me in general lol but WWII in piticular.

You got me searching 109 vids on youtube after this thread and i found this one of someone walking around what looks like a museum pre restoration yard of some sort followed by a flight demo of what looks like DB 109 (could be wrong i don't know the different types by sight that well) any way i could not help but think about walking around where the camera is in the first part of the video ALL DAY LONG!!

just tracing the lines of the skin of the aircraft with my finger tips and smelling that classic war bird smell of the cockpit and getting chills thinking about what it felt like to climb into the cockpit combining both your excruciating love for flying such planes with your fear of being destroyed and never having that feeling again every time you left the ground......... it just blows me away I am truly in heaven in a place like that in the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QP16...eature=related

[Sternjaeger II]

Yeah,there's a lot of flying forms,but nothing like vintage planes and warbirds: several members here have flown or regularly fly with vintage types and will tell you the same

I recently had the luck to see the Red Bull P-38 fly,and man,what an incredibly elegant sexy thing it was! Got some really wicked shots of it

and yes, the 109 in the video is actually a genuine Emil, originally an E1, upgraded to E4 after the BoB one of the very few Battle of Britain veterans left, which was piloted by Marseille (with which he shot down a Spitfire) and subsequently sent to Russia, where it was abandoned and recovered in a swamp.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

I recently had the luck to see the Red Bull P-38 fly,and man,what an incredibly elegant sexy thing it was! Got some really wicked shots of it

You got them posted anywhere?

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

You got them posted anywhere?

not yet, I took some 1400 shots at Legends this year on the Saturday, then went flying on Sunday (but left the camera on the ground teehehe).

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

not yet, I took some 1400 shots at Legends this year on the Saturday, then went flying on Sunday (but left the camera on the ground teehehe).

You got any photographs from prior shows posted?

[ElAurens]

The simmer's mantra:

"Real pilots are wrong and have no right to have an opinion based on real world experience, because we have charts, and stuff".

[Bryan21cag]

yea stern if you put those up any where let us know would love to see em you may become famous as my next Desk top Artist All rights reserved of coarse would never steal from a fellow shutter bug

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

You got them posted anywhere?

David...take a look, couple of the Redbull p-38 too

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=24494

[David Hayward]

Not a fan of the big red bull painted on the side of that thing.

[David Hayward]

I have no good P-38 shots, but this is kind of cool.

(hint: it has nothing to do with the P-38)