Spitfire song

[Phil Waterman]

Well done little bit of film editing. Not having a face book account could not access the rest of the information (correction here is the link outside facebook http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/ ). Wish they would use a little more of the real sound and less of the music, but then again I'm probably not their target market. But having watch the little video I'll get the movie out and watch in this evening.

Through the years there have been various movies with low level passes of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs. An the sound is something special in many of them but they never quite match the real thing.

Be it a Merlin, Rolls Royce, Packard version there is just something special about the real thing flying close overhead. Completely different from a radial engine.

Just last fall we were doing a vehicle display for the NH Army National Guard Retirement luncheon happened to be located just off the end of runway for regional airport so all day long small prop planes were flying over head. Nobody paid much attention, but then something different started up the runway from the far end of the field coming towards us and every head turned and we watched as a P40 came up the runway and flew less than 100 ft over our heads. Once that cleared I heard the deep rumble of a mulit engined plane approaching and we watched as a B17 flew by and was joined by the P40.

Cheers Phil

[Phil Waterman]

Now I understand the logic of the music scores after looking at the films music and reading the info on http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/ .

Took me awhile to understand the why and the logic of the music over-score. It is a good way of making history more alive for the younger generations.

I remember these films from my childhood, no not as newsreels at the movies I'm not that old. But from the TV and a series called The 20th Century with Walter Cronkite.

Cheers Phil

[Jon Skagfeld]

Looks like a bit of revisionism, what with Reg Mitchell naming his aircraft the "Spitfire Bird".

In actual fact, lying on his death bed, upon learning what his creation had been named by others, purportedly said something like "Oh, what a silly name!".

[bill m]

Thanks for sharing Keith,
I enjoyed it.
cheers
Bill.