Originally Posted by muppetofthenorth
Forgive a question based on minor pedantry: news is reporting this as " the biggest gathering of Spitfires and Hurricanes since World War 2". Is it? Wouldn't more have been gathered during the filming of The Battle of Britain?
I appreciate the answer doesn't matter one iota, just settles my curiosity.
Nope, not even 50% of this number used in the BoB filming....which had 12 x flyable Spits and 3 x flyable Hurricanes.