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Spitfire K5054 90th Anniversary Circumnavigation of the UK: PIREPS
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The SrG and T_K Spit Tour Adventure: Flight 6
Flight 6 took us from RAF Valley around the Welsh coast to what used to be RAF St. Athan. As we didn't have a Texan T1 between us I flew the Spit and Rob flew Piglet's A29B in one of my 7FTS paint schemes.
Here we are just after take-off and heading south in clear skies.
I seem to have spent a lot of time on this tour staring at Rob's rear end (ooo, errr, missus)!
As we crossed the estuary onto the Gower Peninsular we started to notice low cloud ahead. I hope that's not a bad omen!
We then did an over-fly of Swansea airport that still exists in FSX and P3D and Little NavMap but which is no longer operating in real life apparently.
The destination airport was what was known as RAF St. Athan and since 2006 is now known as MOD St. Athan. We did an over-fly of the airport and local town and the VASI lights from Cardiff Airport can be seen at the top of the shot.
I circled around and made the customary curved approach to the active runway.
I stopped by the pump to refuel while Rob made a wheels-up low-pass down the active!
He got down safe and then it was time to figure who was going to fly what for the next leg.
Flight 6 took us from RAF Valley around the Welsh coast to what used to be RAF St. Athan. As we didn't have a Texan T1 between us I flew the Spit and Rob flew Piglet's A29B in one of my 7FTS paint schemes.
Here we are just after take-off and heading south in clear skies.
I seem to have spent a lot of time on this tour staring at Rob's rear end (ooo, errr, missus)!
As we crossed the estuary onto the Gower Peninsular we started to notice low cloud ahead. I hope that's not a bad omen!
We then did an over-fly of Swansea airport that still exists in FSX and P3D and Little NavMap but which is no longer operating in real life apparently.
The destination airport was what was known as RAF St. Athan and since 2006 is now known as MOD St. Athan. We did an over-fly of the airport and local town and the VASI lights from Cardiff Airport can be seen at the top of the shot.
I circled around and made the customary curved approach to the active runway.
I stopped by the pump to refuel while Rob made a wheels-up low-pass down the active!
He got down safe and then it was time to figure who was going to fly what for the next leg.
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I applaud Melo's idea of flying the actual Spitfire version that did the Round Britain Flight, and the whole thing was his idea in the first place of course, so that's 'only right and proper', as my Mum would have said.
I'd intended to fly my re-painted PRXI(T) on the whole route, but I rather like the idea of flying different Marks too, so I'll fly a Mk. V on the next leg, and maybe other Marks later on in the Tour.
I'd intended to fly my re-painted PRXI(T) on the whole route, but I rather like the idea of flying different Marks too, so I'll fly a Mk. V on the next leg, and maybe other Marks later on in the Tour.