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Beautiful! Though I'd have been happier with more Spitfire... :)
The Spitfire did a separate display with only those two passes with the Typhoon, the Spitfire display will be a future video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hal Bryan
Then I look forward to that one as well - thanks for sharing these here!
Hal, we are in complete agreement. If you are going to have a D Day celebration then let it be with the ones that were really there on that day, and Spitfires certainly were.
The history of Carolyn Grace's Mk IX says Aussie or New Zeland? pilot Johnny Holton? shot down a 109 over the beach area that day.
The only way I'd want an jet in that scene is if they painted it yellow and brown.
I sure wish I was going to be at Normandy on the 6th and in that area. Maybe next year. I feel that I should be there, and hope a lot of other people are.
Well one could look at it like a heritage flight fly-by, showing the tradition of the RAF…amply displayed by the "invasion stripes." In which case nothing wrong, all well and good.The solo display by the Euro-fight does detract from that idea, though. Nothing to do with commemorating D-Day at all.
Why "yellow and brown" for a D-Day jet?
Bill misses the dark and briefly misguided period when the forum site was yellow and brown and he's kind enough to remind me of that frequently. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayhemxpc