Having fixed the Spitfire, I’m now ready to try out Dover. The closest airport, I believe, is Manston, but I decide to take off from Southend to have more time to enjoy flying the Spitfire and listening to the Merlin sound. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passing over Ramsgate

 

Here is the Manston airport

 

Over Deal and Middle Deal

 

Dover is dead ahead

 

But where are the cliffs?

 

 

Ok, the other side of Dover looks a bit better

 

Thanks for viewing

Nice shots! I know Deal fairly well. There is a really long beach from Sandwich to Kingsdown (where there are white cliffs).....I don't see them in your shots.

I hope to do that run in a real two seat Spitfire in the not too distant future. 🤩

Nice shots Bernd, and yep, that spitfire sure looks good. (can't say the same about Southend, my home town, I'm afraid - no pier!)

Bernd:

Nice pictures...along with the Spitfire...!!

Yes, I do recall from Orbx(England) seeing, at least segments of Dover Cliffs, which had looked all-white, from top to bottom edges, as, of course, also, in the RW, as Ed has said,...(I guess, it depends on, where exactly, along the coastline, these shots are captured)...

Thank you gents for your comments

17 hours ago, edetroit said:

I hope to do that run in a real two seat Spitfire in the not too distant future. 🤩

I am green with envy, Ed 😉😉

Have you seen this article about flying in a Hurricane:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8729033/JANE-FRYER-Bravery-eye-hurricane.html

6 hours ago, bernd1151 said:

Thank you gents for your comments

I am green with envy, Ed 😉😉

Have you seen this article about flying in a Hurricane:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8729033/JANE-FRYER-Bravery-eye-hurricane.html

I follow the 2 seat Spitfire page so I know about the 2 seat Hurricane. I have tried to like the Hurricane all my life but it can never compare to the Spitfire. 

I remember in my late teens I built a radio controlled Spitfire. It took months to get the courage to fly it (I was used to high wing much easier to fly aircraft). I did in the end and it crashed on it's first flight.😪 

edit. I couldn't find a pic of my Spitfire but I did find a pic of me (far left age14/15) flying one of my combat ship designs at my boarding school.... does anyone remember control line flying?

Edited September 14, 20205 yr by edetroit

No Ed, don’t recall Control Line Flying....🙂...(I started reading Wiki, but stopped after, “...the aircraft is connected to the Operator with pair of lines....”....🙂....)

Seriously this is great stuff here..., though, I was hoping that small model to be an IL-76, maybe....🙂...

Thanks for the flashback....!!

 

 

13 minutes ago, P_7878 said:

No Ed, don’t recall Control Line Flying....🙂...(I started reading Wiki, but stopped after, “...the aircraft is connected to the Operator with pair of lines....”....🙂....)

 

 

 

And combat flying is when two of you stand back to back (control line flying). You have to cut off the streamer attached to the back of the other aircraft with the prop of your aircraft. Very high octane stuff...great fun and lots of broken aircraft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTpZGkEplg

 

Edited September 14, 20205 yr by edetroit

Arrgh! For the life of me, I was going to post up a video clip I once watched (imagined?) of a control line spoof flight: The chap complete with handlebar moustache, flying jacket, silk scarf and goggles walks to the middle of a field and puts a box down. He then proceeds to set up an "invisible" control line plane start it and fly it - he's just making the appropriate noises and turning round in circles for the duration of the "flight". Oh well, it amused me at the time! 

Great pictures, Bernd.

It's almost a pity that there's no possibility to backdate MSFS Scenery to historical times.