Video and commentary by Dave Hadfield www.hadfield.ca of a formation photo flight with two Spitfires (and a Mustang!) while departing from Airventure 2018.
See how those great air-to-air shots are captured!
Song "On Track" from album "Climbin' Away" (c)2018 by Dave Hadfield www.hadfield.ca
Spitfire IX TE-294 C-GYQQ was part-way through the "5000 Miles In A Spitfire" journey, from Ottawa to Comox BC and back in 2018.
Owned by Mike Potter of Ottawa, and operated in association with Vintage Wings of Canada wwwvintagewings.ca
NOTE: There are many comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In the B of B the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they'd go to their aeroplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness "just-so" for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the "oh-crap-forgot-that" mistakes.
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