Many moons ago when I was renewing my IMC rating at Southampton the BBMF overnighted there with the Lanc, a Spit and the Hurricane in desert camoflage. My instructor and I asked when they were launching for the show over Lee-on-Solent and arranged to be at 2,500' above them. Watching them doing a few wide orbits as they lined up for the display run was superb. Even the Hurricane in it's sandy colours was initially hard to see against the countryside below. We managed a fast dive down to get a Messerschmidt pilot's eye view of the Lanc, no we weren't even close as they were doing around 160-170 knots and we were at around 130 but it was still an awesome sight. Just so typical that I didn't have my camera with me but it will be etched on my memory forever.