Spitfire's 70th Birthday

[LDunlop76]

Not our Spitfire (got you going though, didn't I? []), the Spitfire! The Spitfire plane celebrated it's 70th birthday yesterday:
http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/bbmf/spitfire70.html
I heard on the radio that it's test pilot is still alive - aged something like 93!

[Alan Marsden]

Here's an interesting Canadian site with a flying Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster

http://ipmslondon.tripod.com/museumreviews/id14.html

and here's the Telegraph report of the flight of (93) year old Alex Henshaw.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...w_06032006

[Martin]

Happy Birthday Spitfire!

[Sandieh]

[] Happy Birthday Jim ! []

[noel]

Happy birthday to the one with wings and that's not our Jim, he's far too young.

[Spitfire]

Thanks for that Noel........ oh! how I wish it was true. Another couple of years and we could have shared the same birthday (that`s the aircraft and myself).

[LDunlop76]

quote:

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Originally posted by Spitfire

oh! how I wish it was true.

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What's not true? That you're too young? Jim, you may be only a few years younger than the Spitfire, but you're young at heart and that's what counts! []