A silver Spitfire is to fly the world and its on its way now! It will be in Thailand in October. It will be at Ubon Ratchathani on the 14th October for 2 nights and then fly to Don Mueng where it will rest for 4 nights after which it will fly on to Chiang Mia for one night before heading for Burma.

A once a lifetime chance to see and hear this aircraft, there is more information on silverspitfire.com

I won't be here, but I love the look of that plane with the wheels up.

Should be interesting to see the Japanese in Bangkok scared sh$$less

8 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

Should be interesting to see the Japanese in Bangkok scared sh$$less

Why ??  There would be virtually no Jap tourists who have ever seen a Spitfire.  How many times have you seen a Zero ?

1 minute ago, jaiyen said:

Why ??  There would be virtually no Jap tourists who have ever seen a Spitfire.  How many times have you seen a Zero ?

I have not seen an atomic bomb detonated either but sure as hell from my education it would concern me . Or are you suggesting the Japanese have no education regarding WW2 like the Thais ?

Sponsored by watchmakers IWC it started out yesterday from Goodwood and is appearing in the U S first .. No small mission for a plane nearly 80 yrs old .. The maintenance and inspection programme while it undertakes this must be immense .. 

 

I am sure most know this but there is already a silver Spitfire at Don Mueng. Round the back at the air force museum. And a Harrier.

 

 

 

and a bonus MIG 21

 

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by VocalNeal

Great! I wish it would beat up our village. 

 

For a moment I thought that the post was about Shepherd Neame beer!  Much less interesting.

Funny how the official site says it will visit Thailand and Cambodia, but the route map on it doesn't have it coming to either, just Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar...

 

Lovely picture of it on there too:

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by ballpoint

Exate date in Chiang Mai?

A must see.

I'll be there to see and hear.

2 hours ago, jimmysjo said:

Exate date in Chiang Mai?

A must see.

According to the website its 20th October.

The silver spit is probably a mk11 (later WW2 production) 3 blade prop, whereas the one at the Thai airforce museum looks like a post ww2 (1946) mk22 or mk24, 6 blade prop.!

3 minutes ago, millymoopoo said:

The silver spit is probably a mk11 (later WW2 production) 3 blade prop, whereas the one at the Thai airforce museum looks like a post ww2 (1946) mk22 or mk24, 6 blade prop.!

The Silver Spit is a Mk.IX, the one in LOS is a late one which has a 5 blade prop...

15 minutes ago, millymoopoo said:

The silver spit is probably a mk11 (later WW2 production) 3 blade prop, whereas the one at the Thai airforce museum looks like a post ww2 (1946) mk22 or mk24, 6 blade prop.!

Count again.......????

3 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

I have not seen an atomic bomb detonated either but sure as hell from my education it would concern me . Or are you suggesting the Japanese have no education regarding WW2 like the Thais ?

Spitfires werent really the enemy of Japan. It was the mustangs and B52

I am looking forward to it's Ubon arrival.............

12 minutes ago, Nevalern said:

Spitfires werent really the enemy of Japan. It was the mustangs and B52

B29

 

 

4 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

I have not seen an atomic bomb detonated either but sure as hell from my education it would concern me . Or are you suggesting the Japanese have no education regarding WW2 like the Thais ?

 

He's suggesting that a Spitfire would cause little or no "resonance" within the consciousness of a Japanese tourist.

 

Why should it? it has not got the symbolism for them that it has for Baby-Boom Brits.

 

The Japanese have not had a religiously worshipful knowledge of it relentlessly hammered into their brains (unlike Baby-Boom Brits).

 

A B29 however might give them some pause for thought and reflection.

 

In just one of its raids it burned the heart out of Tokyo and killed over 100,000 men, women and children:

 

Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia

Air raids on Japan - Wikipedia

 

And perhaps most memorably it dropped the A bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

I'm pretty sure they would know about those events and the "instruments" of their prosecution.

 

The aeroplane......it started as a wonderful dream, but became, for all too many.....a nightmare.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by Enoon

It flew over my place yesterday with a few others, great sound nothing like the modern prop planes

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Count again.......????

Right. The Spit in Bkk air museum is a Spit with a Griffon engine and a five blade prop.

Have never seen a Spit with a six blade.

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by jimmysjo

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

B29

 

 

Yeah. And the Corsairs.

 

1 hour ago, Nevalern said:

Spitfires werent really the enemy of Japan. It was the mustangs and B52

  a Hurricane would have been more appropriate, for the NthWest Thai/Burma regions

 

If yous ever get the chance?

 - read 'Hurricanes Over Burma'  written by the actual veterans.

Hurricanes over Burma; by MC Cotton DFC

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by tifino

1 hour ago, millymoopoo said:

The silver spit is probably a mk11 (later WW2 production) 3 blade prop, whereas the one at the Thai airforce museum looks like a post ww2 (1946) mk22 or mk24, 6 blade prop.!

The website says the silver spitfire is a mk9 with a 4 blade prop

5 hours ago, jaiyen said:

Why ??  There would be virtually no Jap tourists who have ever seen a Spitfire.  How many times have you seen a Zero ?

Nil (Zero! ????)

There were some beautiful aircraft from this era, The Mustang (Rolls Royce engine too) is another gorgeous craft. Had a flight in one with an ex fighter pilot back in the late 80's. The sound of that Merlin engine ... goose bumps!

5 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

I am sure most know this but there is already a silver Spitfire at Don Mueng. Round the back at the air force museum. And a Harrier.

 

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

and a bonus MIG 21

 

 

 

Is that a Mark 9 ???

I also suspected the British ale - 5 quid for 6 bottles at Sainsburys in the good old days.

19 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

 

January 2009

Edited August 6, 20196 yr by Jimmysj

The silver spitfire is actually a mk IX from I think about 1954? and its just worth mentioning here that you will need to keep an eye on the web page to see if the route is going according to plan, its a long journey and there are bound to be issues along the way. A WW2 spit had a range of about 300 miles whereas this one has about 500 miles which might help with where its calling along the way, no garages at XX thousand feet!

Experienced them down the Mall and on the way back to Farnborough station a sight and sound like no other. This one I guess will have the RR Griffon engine rather than the Merlin, not compared the sound but there are some sounds that are exceptional, Spitfire, Lancaster, Concorde and not forgetting the English Electric Deltic, can hear them for miles coming and you know whats coming. When I was at work in the 1970/80s I used the 0550 out of Kings Cross Deltic as my alarm!