Photo Crown Copyright via Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Every few years, each of the aircraft within the Royal Air Force’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) receives a new paint scheme as a way of highlighting the enormous breadth of history and valiant actions which these aircraft represent. Typically, the BBMF times these repaints to coincide with major aircraft overhauls, and such was the case recently for the Flight’s Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc PZ865, which returned to its home at RAF Coningsby yesterday following rework at Biggin Hill now marked as a No.247 Squadron night fighter intruder aircraft, coded ‘ZY-V. As the BBMF press release notes…
Dim the lights and unwind this Saturday, April 24, as the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra promises to set the mood with a fusion of sounds by Czech artist, conductor and composer Jan Kučera during its online
Lounge Night concert.
The Tango, a fiery and energetic piece originally composed for
The Untouchables, a dance performance by the Spitfire Company in 2010.
Shifting to a softer mood,
The Ballad was built around a simple musical motif originally written for piano, and eventually transcribed and performed by acclaimed soloists, including Radek Baborák and Arturo Sandoval.
One of the members of the MPO
Ending on an uplifting note, the MPO will play
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Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Announces Latest Spitfire Under Restoration
Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Announces Latest Spitfire Under Restoration
Images copyright Peter Arnold Collection
As we have reported in the past, the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar and its parent organization, The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Ltd, have made remarkable progress in their work restoring Supermarine Spitfires at their facility on London Biggin Hill Airport, south east of London, England. This site is steeped in Spitfire history, being the former home of what once was RAF Biggin Hill, a major fighter base during the Battle of Britain. The company has worked on a dozen or so Spitfires since their inception, and has several on site at any given time, both airworthy and those under rebuild. Readers might recall the first flight last year of ‘The Greek Spitfire’, Spitfire Mk.IX MJ755, which is the last complete surviving example to have served in the Greek Air Force.