Pretty neat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY&sns=em

Wow! That was totally awesome. Thanks!

VERRRRY cool, indeed!


lc

Excellent; a great piece of history!

That was cool! I was as shocked as he was when I realized that the doctor he was talking about was the same doctor who took the footage... I didnt put two and two together. This is a great story.

Sad to see where we've come since then.

Great find, thanks !

Reminds me of a poem I had read years ago in a book, by another photo-recon Spitfire pilot (no not that other famous poem written by a PR Spitfire pilot !). Thanks to the magic of Google, here is The Tale of the Gremlins:


This is the tale of the Gremlins
as told by the PRU
At Benson, Wick and St Eval
And believe me you slobs, it's true.

When you're seven miles up in the heavens
(that's one hell of a lonely spot),
and it's sixty degrees below zero,
which isn't exactly hot.

When you're frozen blue like your Spitfire
and you're scared a mosquito pink,
and you're thousands of miles from nowhere,
and there's nothing beneath but the drink.

It's then that you will see the gremlins,
green, and gamboge, and gold,
male and female and neuter,
gremlins both young and old.

it's no good trying to dodge them,
the lessons you learnt on the 'link'
won't help you to evade a gremlin,
though boost, and you dive, and jink

white ones will wiggle your wing tips,
male ones will muddle your maps,
green ones will guzzle your glycol,
females will flutter your flaps.

Pink ones will perch on your perspex,
and dance pirouettes on your prop,
and there's a spherical middle aged gremlin,
who'll spin on your stick like a top.

They'll freeze up your camera shutters,
they'll bite through your aileron wires,
they'll bend, and they'll break, and they'll batter.
They'll insert toasting forks in your tyres.

This is the tale of the gremlins,
as told by the PRU.
Pretty Ruddy Unlikely to many,
but fact, none the less,
to the few.

Awesome video!!

I completely agree with him..., "Every pilot should fly a Spitfire at least once." So when is it my turn?

Loved it.

Thanks, great short.