'The Power and the Glory'
Last weekend I spent my time at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire for my first taste of air-to-air photography with the guys from Aviation Photocrew, for the UK Warbirds project - and boy! did the weather play ball.
A huge thanks to Richard Paver, Eric and the guys for a top day, everything ran like clockwork in the end.
Staying at the Aviator hotel next to the airfield was a joy aswel - great memories made all round.
This is Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.XVIe RW382 (G-PBIX). RW382 was built at Castle Bromwich in 1945 as a low back Mk.XVI and was delivered to No. 604 Squadron in 1947 before being retired in 1953. After starring in the Battle of Britain movie and being a gate guard at various RAF stations, it was rebuilt to fly in 1991 in original 604 Squadron markings as NG-C and registered G-XVIA. It was exported to the United States in 1995 and registered as N382RW before it was lost in a fatal crash in 1998. The wreckage was later exported to the United Kingdom, rebuilt as a high back Spitfire, re-registered as G-PBIX and flew again in 2013 in No. 322 (Dutch) Squadron markings of 3W-P. RW382 was repainted in 2020 as a Spitfire (WZ-RR) from 309th Fighter Squadron USAAF flown by Lieutenant Robert Conner in Italy 1944.
It joined up with our Skyvan during the third photo-flight of the afternoon with two Hurricanes in tow.
Fabulous!
© Ben Stacey All Rights Reserved - Any use, reproduction or distribution of this image without my explicit permission is strictly prohibited.
'The Power and the Glory'
Last weekend I spent my time at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire for my first taste of air-to-air photography with the guys from Aviation Photocrew, for the UK Warbirds project - and boy! did the weather play ball.
A huge thanks to Richard Paver, Eric and the guys for a top day, everything ran like clockwork in the end.
Staying at the Aviator hotel next to the airfield was a joy aswel - great memories made all round.
This is Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.XVIe RW382 (G-PBIX). RW382 was built at Castle Bromwich in 1945 as a low back Mk.XVI and was delivered to No. 604 Squadron in 1947 before being retired in 1953. After starring in the Battle of Britain movie and being a gate guard at various RAF stations, it was rebuilt to fly in 1991 in original 604 Squadron markings as NG-C and registered G-XVIA. It was exported to the United States in 1995 and registered as N382RW before it was lost in a fatal crash in 1998. The wreckage was later exported to the United Kingdom, rebuilt as a high back Spitfire, re-registered as G-PBIX and flew again in 2013 in No. 322 (Dutch) Squadron markings of 3W-P. RW382 was repainted in 2020 as a Spitfire (WZ-RR) from 309th Fighter Squadron USAAF flown by Lieutenant Robert Conner in Italy 1944.
It joined up with our Skyvan during the third photo-flight of the afternoon with two Hurricanes in tow.
Fabulous!
© Ben Stacey All Rights Reserved - Any use, reproduction or distribution of this image without my explicit permission is strictly prohibited.