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Flying a Spitfire Air Display, with a DH 115 Vampire

Spitfire Mk IX airshow with Dave Hadfield, and formation passes with DH Vampire, at the Great Lakes International Airshow in June 2018. Helmet-cam and voice-over by Dave Hadfield. Song "On Track" (c)2018 Dave Hadfield www.hadfield.ca Note: aerobatics were not allowed during this display. The aircraft was fresh out of the restoration shop, and there was no opportunity to gain the accreditation for an aerobatic show. But it's possible to fly a routine that displays a Spitfire without going inverted. This is the first time a Spitfire and a Vampire have flown together in Canada for about 40 years. NOTE: There are many comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In the B of B the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they'd go to their aeroplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness "just-so" for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the "oh-crap-forgot-that" mistakes.