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Korean roll is more exciting

WOW! What an achievement 🎉

Spitfires in 1940 probably would be the mk1's

@@paulfharris175 Mk1 or 2. with brownings, the hispanos were not fitted at that stage. Nor were 4 blade steel props, nor were 60 series merlins. Only Hurricans were sent to France in 1940.

@@Will_CH1 to true my mistake I blame faulty memory chips 🍟 and you Can't get replacement chips

@@paulfharris175 I need replacements as well. I can never remember names,

@@Will_CH1 well I'm 64

She is the famous MH434. M.

Flown by Ray Hannah. There’s several documentaries about it out there!

Of course it isn't faked, you dozy prat. Ray Hanna did this stunt at Winston Bridge near Barnard Castle on the River Tees on Jul 7th 1988.

I remember being at Duxford for 'Flying Legends' years ago, and they were putting up 13 Spitfires as the finale. It was to be the largest number of Spit's at one time for decades. We watched them take orff and they gathered into formation and just as they came round into sound range, the bloody control tower started playing "Land of Hope and Glory" over the PA system. Totally ruined the sound of the Merlins... grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Crazy, when there's already a 12 piece orchestra playing.

Because the Spitfire engine is getting old and it needs tuning now and then,

Yep, and he did a victory roll, which was not allowed because it put too much stress on the struts… but this is a MK VII or later version that came after Battle of Britain so maybe they were better engineered..

You Sir are quite correct 👍

It helped massively in gaining air superiority, over Great Britain, something no German plane, or pilot could achieve 😏

That’s a Griffon engine on this spitfire

Your absolutely right. The pilot is Foyles son who is on special assignment testing the effectiveness of the new Radar net.

Actually @chris gain, it is a Merlin, in the Mk9 it had a 4 blade propellor. The Griffon engined Spits had 5 blade props which turned in the opposite direction.

@@buffplums Actually Chris, it is a Merlin. In the Mk9 it had a 4 blade propellor. The Griffon engined Spits had 5 blade props which turned in the opposite direction.

Foyles war yes.......but the actual flight under the bridge was from "piece of Cake" and cut into Foyles war. Ray Hanna was the Pilot.

ua-cam.com/video/jUHpkv27uGc/v-deo.html We've just done a mini film on it with Sarah Hanna commentary

I think you mean Winston bridge on the River Tees (Co Durham). Reputedly Douglas Bader flew under it to prove to his Squadron Commander that he could still 'cut it' after getting his artificial legs (but I can't vouch for how true this bit is).

@@JammyDodger45 Knowing Bader's reputation, it sounds like something he would do if he needed to prove himself.

@@bradevans7935 -well he was definitely based at RAF Middleton St George following his crash and his logbook shows he flew numerous aircraft types whilst there (it was a deep repair base so had everything from single seat trainers to multi engine bombers pass through its hangars). The pub next to Winston bridge (I'll let you guess at its imaginative name) has a plaque on the wall relating the DB story.

Been there today and the bridge and setting are beautiful. Got lots of photos too ❤

Yes this is from Foyles War., but as for the flying who was the fantastic pilot,? The Spitfire Engine gives me goose bumps...every time I love Spits❤

Hi, I believe, the gentleman's surname was Hanna, a famous spit flyer.

@@kat71580 : Ray Hanna. God rest his soul 🙏

MH434 is a film and TV star. If there's a spitfire in it chances are she's the one

@@mothmagic1 MH434 was the Wartime Spitfire of Pat Lardner Burke. Er.....Not sure of the spelling of Lardner!!

Someone really did fly a spitfire under that bridge

Certainly two different aircraft, the one that takes off is armed with cannon in the wings, the aircraft flying under the bridge does not.

What happened was that they used footage from Piece of Cake for the Spitfire flying under the bridge and fitted it into this episode of Foyle’s war. Coincidentally, they’re both the same Spitfire, Mk.IXb MH434, of course it was painted brown and green for Piece of Cake, but was in it’s original markings for Foyle’s war

Spot on.

what you dont realise is that the RAF had special stealth Spitfires during the war. in order to confuse the German intelligence units from getting information on the quantity of British aircraft a special team of RAF Painters was formed to respray the spitfires in flight to confuse the Germans into believing we had more aircraft than we actually had

I seem to remember in 'Piece of Cake' he complained of having 'boiling oil' as an excuse to peel away from the squadron. He then went and flew under the bridge:-) Looks like 'Foyles War' grafted that bit on to their own series:-)

Looks like they flipped it this time.

Yes, I remember it too. 👍

Yes it was moggy not this total cad

My first thought. You are correct.

This is footage of a spitfire actually flying under Winston Bridge in County Durham in 1988 by Ray Hanna, an ex RAF pilot. It was originally done for the programme 'a piece of cake', a television series that was set during World War Two. Winston Bridge, spanning the River Tees, was to play the part of a bridge in Thionville , Northern France in 1939. Apparently it was the only bridge in northern europe that was suitable.

@@kindog101 The same footage was used in the TV Foyle's War. I just read about this flight today in Aeroplane magazine for July 2020. Apparently the pilot went around twice before committing on the third pass. If you ask me he got it right the first two times!