I am so old that I can remember flying to a holiday destination on a C47/Dakota/DC3. Those were the days! It took off from a grass airfield quite close to where I live.
There is a long, straight, down-hill road behind some trees about 200 yards from the back of my house. I was in the garden one day and I heard what I thought was some idiot going for the land speed record down the hill.
The sound got louder as he approached but it kept getting louder and louder as time passed. Eventually I caught on, it was, in fact a plane. A single-engined and very powerful plane. I sort of knew where it was but I could not see it. It was behind the trees so very low. Then it pulled up and performed a roll.
It was the Griffon-engined Sptifire (36 litre/2197 cu in, V12) that used to be owned by Rolls-Royce! Apparently, their pilot had some relatives that lived at the end of the road and every time he flew past to a show somewhere he would put on a little demonstration.
Sadly, that pilot and plane did not have a happy ending.
I am so old that I can remember flying to a holiday destination on a C47/Dakota/DC3. Those were the days! It took off from a grass airfield quite close to where I live.
...I love the sounds of those old planes...
...occasionally, one doing cargo work will fly over and I run out to watch it like a child waiting for the ice cream truck...
It's not just me then? LOL!
There is a long, straight, down-hill road behind some trees about 200 yards from the back of my house. I was in the garden one day and I heard what I thought was some idiot going for the land speed record down the hill.
The sound got louder as he approached but it kept getting louder and louder as time passed. Eventually I caught on, it was, in fact a plane. A single-engined and very powerful plane. I sort of knew where it was but I could not see it. It was behind the trees so very low. Then it pulled up and performed a roll.
It was the Griffon-engined Sptifire (36 litre/2197 cu in, V12) that used to be owned by Rolls-Royce! Apparently, their pilot had some relatives that lived at the end of the road and every time he flew past to a show somewhere he would put on a little demonstration.
Sadly, that pilot and plane did not have a happy ending.
...wonderful story with a not so happy ending...
...but the plane and the pilot both died doing what they were born to do...
Pay wall
https://archive.ph/e8itJ
...here you go...
Thanks good read
God bless you for your readership and encouraging words.
...where we howl 1, we howl all...