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I was looking at the Two-Seat Spitfire Page today (on facebook) and found a good candidate for our next Air Tour event.
They are staging a 90th Anniversary nine flight Spitfire Circumnavigation of the UK with a 2 Seat Spitfire repainted to match the livery of K5054 the prototype Spitfire. Coincidentally today is the anniversary of the first flight of K5054 on March 5th 1936.
During the nine flights the K5054 Spitfire will be escorted briefly by other more modern RAF and/or British aircraft, commemorating each decade of aviation advancement since the first flight of K5054. This would give us a fun opportunity to have a story about the escorting aircraft too.
I am itching to be back flying a Spitfire for one of our Air Tours, naturally!
More infornmation about the commemorative flights can be found here:
www.spitfires.com
They are also having a Charity Auction for each back seat Spitfire flight, one for each of the nine legs. If all the aircraft in my FSX/MSFS 2020 hangers were real, I could sell half of them and afford to put in an Auction Bid for a flight.
Here is what the K5054 repaint of BS410 looks like:
And here is a graphic showing the proposed route around the UK:
We could fly our Air Tour at a similar time to the April Spitfire flights, or plan our Air Tour for May so we have the accurate details about when and where the flights actually happened. And which aircraft were the escorts on each leg.
Let me know what you think!
They are staging a 90th Anniversary nine flight Spitfire Circumnavigation of the UK with a 2 Seat Spitfire repainted to match the livery of K5054 the prototype Spitfire. Coincidentally today is the anniversary of the first flight of K5054 on March 5th 1936.
During the nine flights the K5054 Spitfire will be escorted briefly by other more modern RAF and/or British aircraft, commemorating each decade of aviation advancement since the first flight of K5054. This would give us a fun opportunity to have a story about the escorting aircraft too.
I am itching to be back flying a Spitfire for one of our Air Tours, naturally!
More infornmation about the commemorative flights can be found here:
Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the First Spitfire Flight
We're planning a circumnavigation of mainland UK in a Spitfire painted in the original colours of the prototype K5054, in partnership with the RAF.
www.spitfires.com
They are also having a Charity Auction for each back seat Spitfire flight, one for each of the nine legs. If all the aircraft in my FSX/MSFS 2020 hangers were real, I could sell half of them and afford to put in an Auction Bid for a flight.
Here is what the K5054 repaint of BS410 looks like:
And here is a graphic showing the proposed route around the UK:
We could fly our Air Tour at a similar time to the April Spitfire flights, or plan our Air Tour for May so we have the accurate details about when and where the flights actually happened. And which aircraft were the escorts on each leg.
Let me know what you think!
