Spitfires! We are close to Duxford Museum and saw a huge spitfire display - wonderful! In fact our wedding reception was held at the Officer's mess there and I arranged for OH to sit in a Spitfire.

Oh yeah he agrees that's a Lancaster.

You're hubby is a lucky man It's my OH's 50th birthday this year and I'd love to pay for him to fly in a Spitfire.

The Spitfire is a lovely plane. When we had an airshow here, the Lancaster was flanked by a Spitfire and a Hurricane. It was a breathtaking sight as the Spitfire and the Hurricane looked tiny compared with the Lanc It certainly was an impressive sight

This year it's the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain memorial flight. I'm going to try and get to Biggin Hill to watch it take off

I got my bike from BAT Motorcycles in Biggin Hill .

Ooh it costs to get a flight in a Spitfire, even if you can arrange it. I think Carolyn Grace used to do flights but not sure now.

It would be easier to get hens teeth than arranging a flight in a Spitfire

Carolyn Grace can arrange a personal display, but you can't get to fly I may try and arrange that for him. It's the nearest he's gonna get to flying it

Duxford might let him sit in one for - I think it was about £25.00. He even gets to climb around on it.

God, he'd love that At Manston we can walk round them, but we can't touch or sit in them. I can't blame them I guess. They spent a fortune renovating it as it used to be a gate guardian, so suffered from the elements

WOW! You've got us both going now - we're looking at displays at Duxford in June/July. They've got the Flying Legends Display coming up, which is what I think we saw before with all the Spitfires. OMG the sound!!!!!

Fabulous isn't it

Sadly they're not having an airshow at Manston this year It's normally this weekend but for one reason or another (funding being one) they've cancelled it. I think the nearest airshow is in Biggin Hill.

It's a pity the Spitfires couldn't keep the Merlin engines I think they would of sounded awesome. I think now they've got the Rolls Royce engines in them (I know at some point they had the Griffin engines)

The biggest plane I've seen has to be the B52 bomber. This thing is colossal You could quite easily get lost in the bomb bay underneath the thing

While we were in Texas, we went to an airshow there. There was hundreds of planes including the Stealth bomber. TBH, it looked like it was made of cardboard

Thanks Wolfie, must be the B17 flying fortress as I've never heard of the Shackleton
Christine

The 'plane is the Avro Lancaster PA474 *City of Lincoln*
It has just undergone a 6 month restoration here at Coventry, and is, as said, one of two flying Lancs left in the world, and is part of the famous *Battle of Britain Memorial Flight*.
Wonderful pics