Good Morning All:
The hyperlink below is of 98 1/2 year old RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Bell DFC who completed 50 missions (Berlin 13 times) as a Pathfinder with RAF 608 Squadron. A short 75 years later he gets to fly in his Mosquito again as a gift I believe from his son!
I only wish I can be that agile if I make his age.
F/L Bell a most sincere thank you for your service!

Must be dusty in here. Heres's to him and the thoudands like him. They were a special generation

Shortly after my mother died I arranged for my father to get just to sit in the left hand seat of the Cosford Catalina. it was fantastic to see the memories come back and to watch as his hands fell naturally on the switches and controls.

The dust is getting worse.

The Mossie was/is a great aircraft, but did anyone write any music about it? I don't think so.
However the Spitfire was so highly regarded that Sir William Walton wrote a stirring piece of music piece about it - the "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue" that you can hear here:

Ninety-Eight Years Old....sharp as a Tack....and flying in a Mozzie.....folks....now how cool is that!

Hand Salute!

Ninthace,

Family friend ran off to Canada so he could "fly"....and did so on Lancasters out of Middleton-Teeside doing thirty trips to Germany.

Listening to his stories of those years while enjoying a good lunch with him was simply magic.

He stayed in the RCAF until the end of the war and accrued no Veterans Benefits from the US Government as a result of his foreign military service.

Poring over some photo albums with him....and seeing all the memories they brought back.....I treasure the time I had with him.

He was my childhood Hero.....a true Gentleman...and very unassuming despite what he had experieneced during the War.

I am thinking it isn't dust....more like allergies and some Pine Pollen!

That's impressive... well done sir.
Amazing to see how quickly the tail lifts on take off roll; virtually flying from the prop wash as soon as the wheels start turning.
Pretty light I suppose!
Wonderful aircraft.

The prelude wasn't written as such. Sir William Walton was contracted to write the music for the film Battle of Britain. In the end his music score was not used apart from one dogfighting scene. This music was then reworked as the prelude and given its title.

Correct.

They were so disappointed with Walton's score for the film, they brought Ron Goodwin at last moment and what a job he did in very short space of time with the opening and closing music plus variations of both used during the film as well.