Thanks for the close-ups and details. I also enjoyed the Mustang and
Spitfire shots. It's not a surprise but I hadn't known the ME-109 was a
V-12. I just love the sound of Merlins. Does the ME-109 sound anything
similar?
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/5/2012 12:57 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Bob (and others)
>
> Sorry, that was a single image outside SmugMug, which is not what I intended.
>
> Here is a link to the gallery:
>
> http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/13807540_dz53NK
>
> The images I mean are at the end.
>
> Chris
>
> On 5 Jul 2012, at 17:38, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Nice one. Did you get closer?
>>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>
>>> I was on the phone trying to get a network problem sorted out when I saw
>>> this lovely old beast through the window that overlooks the airfield, at
>>> work.
>>>
>>> <http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/i-T9HWmKn/0/L/D2012CB2277-ME109-L.jpg>
>>>
>>> The pilot, one Cliff Spink, was on his way from Duxford (Cambridgeshire) to
>>> Humberside (further north, near Yorkshire) when the cowling on one side of
>>> the engine started to come adrift. He landed at my airfield, Wyton (also
>>> in Cambridgeshire) to sort it out. My telephone interlocutor allowed me to
>>> leave him hanging on the line while I ran out to catch a couple of images
>>> of the old "enemy" :-)
>>>
>>> The aircraft's owner is one Richard Lake, MD Eastern Airways, who also owns
>>> a rather nice Spitfire. Cliff is an ex-RAF 2 star (Air Vice Marshal) who
>>> displays both WWII aircraft.
>>
>
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