shivers up my spine

[nick.308]

Heard a plane fly over today which sounded unusual so I stopped what I was doing and looked up to see a Lancaster bomber fly over at about 2000 ft. Had to remind my wife and kids that it was the help of that british machine which made us all here today! They had no clue

 

[Farmer_J]

I saw one a few weeks ago whilst having a bbq with family, it was returning from the jubilee fly past. I stopped looked up and said to everyone look it’s a Lancaster! They all looked at me confused, like, ok big deal, so what! Some people just don’t get it, totally lost on them.

The sound and sight did make the hairs stand up though, magical.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Total magic! Some time ago I took a bunch of old gits friends to the IWM at Duxford; just as we emerged from the entrance hall a Spitfire beat up the runway in front of us then did a barrel roll into a perfect blue sky. Utter joy and wide smiles all round - they still talk about it every time we get together.

 

[csl]

4 Rolls-Royce Merlins, a truly enjoyable experience!

 

[Woodsmoke]

I marshalled the Battle of Britain memorial flight onto it's hardstand at Manston years ago. What an experience

 

[Foxyboy43]

I marshalled the Battle of Britain memorial flight onto it's hardstand at Manston years ago. What an experience

Wow!

 

[Marchman]

I was at a game/country fair some years ago and during the fair a Spitfire performed an aerial display above. Very impressive and looking around virtually all were transfixed on the sky above. Superb.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Wow!

I was on detachment for the 1990 air show. There were a bunch of us from stations all over the country. Ostensibly, we were there to put up chestnut and HERAS fencing for crowd control, but as usual we were 'inventive' with our choice of jobs. The squadron groundcrew had arrived the night before and a couple of pints in the NAAFI saw me kitted out with a couple of mates who were happy to accommodate a fellow cabbage. Thirty years later I can still remember exactly how it felt

 

[camodog]

A couple of years ago a Lancaster was doing the Blackpool Air Show. The pilots mother lives just over the river in the next village to me. He did some impromptu fly pasts over her house, much lower than normal, maybe a couple of hundred feet or so. Locals 'in the know' enjoyed a real treat that day, clear blue skies, and that 'thrum', of those four RR Merlins as they roared overhead.......utterly spine tingling !

 

[Len the dog]

Where I used to live in N Wales close to Hawarden airfield, a Mosquito used to fly directly over our house on a regular basis. It never once failed to make the hairs on my neck stand on end.
The sound of those Merlins is simply gorgeous.

 

[Brighty3006]

not quite the same but altogether absolutely fantastic. My wife surprised me with a flight in an ex Vietnam Huey. Took off from Blackpool and flew into Waddington airshow. Utterly breathtaking

 

[sikamalc]

We often get the Spitfires flying over our area, usually accompanied by a helicopter or other light aircraft. You can pay to fly along side it and take photos. The sound of a merlin engine is a joy to hear. Along with the Lancaster these are the most iconic machines of WW2.
I have a bar in my garden that has a number of items associated with both planes.

 

[Ratel]

Every time I see one it reminds me of the Old man who had a lot of return tickets to Germany in one. When I was a keeper on the Cotswolds we had a local who had a Spitfire, he flew it on VE 50th anniversary at very low level and got into trouble for it. Fantastic when you see one coming at you uphill and almost at tree height.

 

[paulbshooting]

I think it's Guy Martin who has a spitfire engine in his man cave! On TV sometime ago and watched him start it up. Some toy and what a sound

 

[LuckyEddie]

It’s weird how the old planes invoke such feeling.
I wonder if it’s something to do with character/charisma/soul/presence of them.
The same can be said of the older cars and steam trains.

The nearest I come come up with in the jet age are the Buccaneer or the Harrier.
Yeah there are other faster, better (?) louder one but they just lack that something special.

 

[Red Dragon 2]

It’s weird how the old planes invoke such feeling.
I wonder if it’s something to do with character/charisma/soul/presence of them.
The same can be said of the older cars and steam trains.

The nearest I come come up with in the jet age are the Buccaneer or the Harrier.
Yeah there are other faster, better (?) louder one but they just lack that something special.

Just love the sound of Merlins but a Vulcan on low level full afterburn is awesome

 

[User00036]

When I look at the House Martins in the garden, I'm reminded of a Spitfire squadron, same wing shape, body & tail. I wonder if the designer did the same. Turn on a sixpence at full speed.

 

[Liveonce]

Frequently have spitfires and hurricanes over this corner of Kent, with the Battle of Britain memorial at Caple-le-Ferne not that far away, always a beautiful sound and a joy to look up at, never should we forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice for are todays.

 

[Lever357]

I live in Newcastle about ten minutes from the airport. I was cutting my hedge one Saturday afternoon and heard a fantastic sound above the noise of the hedge cutter. I looked up and saw the Lancaster approaching from the near distance. I called my wife to come out of the house and it flew so low up the street that you could clearly see the crew!!!! I had seen it go out earlier with the Spitfire and Hurricane to the Sunderland air show.

 

[Dunwaters]

Best free show I ever got was in New Zealand, a P51D out of Wanaka did a full scale rehearsal for next weeks air show with no one there except me.
I got a walk around tour afterwards. Bliss!