After 70 years, the Spitfire still stirs the heart

[Mr Grumpy]

Bootie, thanks for the post.

Paul,
Duxford has really changed since you were last there, all the US exhibits are now in there own custom built building and the whole place has been uprated to a point there is too much to see in one day, your head starts to spin with info overload after 6 or 7 hours! :)

As i live on the flight path that is used by planes from Duxford to airshows in the midlands, we often get treated to a private airshow over our village, just a couple of weeks ago the whole of the Battle Of Britain flight arrived and gave us a great show with the Hurricane and Spitfire splitting from the Lancaster and doing some low level passes at high speed, then the Lancaster with its bomb doors open and undercarriage down slowly circled us giving an amazing view before all three headed off east, boy oh boy the sound of those engines makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.......

I also agree with you that the mold for these men has been broken and lost maybe forever.................