Sat waiting for Spit's

[John]

we are near Newark on a caravan site, got here yesterday and within half an hour a Spitfire flew over flanked by 2 other small aircraft but I couldn't tell what they were, as we had just got here my camera was in the car so couldn't get any pics


So this morning I thought if they come over again I will be ready, got my camera out of the car and I couldn't believe it 5 minutes later 2 flew over, I tried to take some pictures but my lense was fogged up


I'm now sat outside food, beer and camera to hand, I'm ready for them this time.

[eddiesolo]

Destined never to get the piccies!

[PaulTRose]

dont forget to take the lens cap off next time :P

[Guest]

We all trust in you John!!


You can obtain it....

[John]

I don't believe it, I went for a quick Jimmy and another one flew over and a Dakota flying the other way, I managed to get a tail end picture of the spit and a few of the Dakota, but another hour later 2 more Spitfires flew directly above us, got a couple of pics but won't know how the turn out until I get home.

[colin m]

Good luck with the pics. For me, it seems that the best sightings are the impromptu ones, hence no camera !

[John]

Looked at the pictures I got and they are pretty bad, really disappointed with them


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[papa 695]

They don't look too bad on my phone John

[colin m]

They're fine. They look like 1:1 aircraft to me.

[eddiesolo]

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That looks superb, just looks like a grainy WWII colour picture. How did you get that high, trampoline?

[John]

How did you get that high

It was flying very low and quite far away from me, I only had a 250mm lens on, I was going to use my 500mm lens but it weighs over 2kg so it does get a little tiring holding it