WW II Fighter planes

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On ‎11‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 4:52 PM, motoman said:

Back home up here in St.Peters, I've seen the same thing the past few week. Not always heading north necessarily; but old war planes flying over very low; more than usual. Maybe it's the time of year?

I live in Weldon Spring and saw them Saturday.  By the looks of their flight path they came out of Spirit.

[Quillback]

7 minutes ago, skeeter said:

If you were lucky enough to see a Spitfire still flying...congratulations.  They are easily identified by the elliptical shape of their wingtips and extremely rare.  Makes me wonder if some Company has started making expensive reproductions of that famous British design.

Yep, that's why I thought it might be a Spitfire, the elliptical wing ends.  Just could not get a good enough look at it to be sure.  Commemorative Air Force has one.  Quote rom Wikpedia below.

A second was auctioned in July 2015 at Christies, London. Being one of only four flying MK 1 Spitfires in the world, the aircraft fetched a record £3.1 million at auction on 9 July, beating the previous record for a Spitfire of £1.7 million set in 2009.

[bfishn]

Good eyes Quill.

A little sleuthing in the FAA database yielded the following classics registered in Bentonville to the same LLC;

1944 NORTH AMERICAN/AERO CLASSICS P-51D MUSTANG (151JT)
1944 Fieseler Werke Fi-156-C7 Storch (1565F)
1944 Grumman F7F-3 TigerCat (7195C)
1945 VICKERS SUPERMARINE LTD SPITFIRE MK XVIII (969SM)

[Sore Thumbs]

Impressive research.

[Quillback]

32 minutes ago, bfishn said:

Good eyes Quill.

A little sleuthing in the FAA database yielded the following classics registered in Bentonville to the same LLC;

1944 NORTH AMERICAN/AERO CLASSICS P-51D MUSTANG (151JT)
1944 Fieseler Werke Fi-156-C7 Storch (R.A.F.) (1565F)
1944 Grumman F7F-3 TigerCat (7195C)
1945 VICKERS SUPERMARINE LTD SPITFIRE MK XVIII (969SM)

Well, that solves the mystery, thanks.

 

[Champ188]

Impressive, indeed. And good on you, too, QB for correctly identifying both aircraft. I was sure of the P-51 myself when we saw them fly over the golf course that day but could not identify the other (the Spitfire).

[jim m]

met a a british man in 1999 that was a spitfire pilot in wwii. I was at a reunion of the bomb group my father was in and he was there. he was stationed at the air base as part of the british defense of the base

[Quillback]

Had a great uncle that flew a Mustang in WWII in Europe.  He died when I was 12, I remember the pictures he had on the walls of his family room, but never had a good conversation with him about his experiences, I was just too young at the time. 

[Champ188]

That's too bad. Would've been a great conversation.

 

[ness]

In my experience, those guys just didn't talk too much about it. I had two uncles (actually my dad's first cousins, whatever that makes them to me) who were pilots in WWII. One flew reconnaissance in a P-38, not sure what the other flew.  My dad was in a MASH unit in Korea. In my 40s I sat my dad down and interviewed him  and recorded it. Tons of stuff I never knew.