Showing posts with label Spitfire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spitfire. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 June 2023

Commemoration












 This might look like something of a photo dump but I have been trying to find time to sort through my shots from the recent 80th Anniversary Commemorations of the Battle of the Atlantic at Liverpool at the end of May, and now I have done I wanted to share the best of them.

On the day there were flypasts from a small selection of aircraft; an exceptionally rare  Supermarine Seafire, a version of the Spitfire designed for flying from aircraft carriers, a Fairey Swordfish which was a submarine hunter that would fly low and slow before releasing its torpedo ( a tactic that left the crew very vulnerable). My grandad worked on these planes when he was in the Fleet Air Arm during the war. And then of course the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight consisting of a Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane and an Avro Lancaster, always a magical sight to see these legendary aircraft in the sky.

Saturday, 1 November 2014

Spitfire

For November I have chosen to change the background for my blog as a mark of respect and to show support for the Royal British Legion poppy appeal.  

I have also decided to post a couple of pictures of one of my favourite aircraft, the Spitfire. These pictures were taken during a display at the Hoylake Lifeboat Open Day in August 2013.  The RNLI is another fantastic organisation that most of us take for granted but deserves our support.

Anyway you may have seen these pictures before but it is an iconic plan and I am posting them as a tribute to British servicemen past and present.