Great videos Ded and Joe, thanks for posting !


On a similar topic, I visited Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, where the Darling-Salmond Referendum debate was held last week.






There is a " Vickers-Armstrong Supermarine Spitfire LA198 " ( 1944 ) on display. As a Mark 21 Spitfire, this aeroplane’s Griffon 61 engine allowed a top speed of 442 mph during its first test flight. Of over 20,000 Spitfires built, only 120 were Mark 21s . Spitfire LA198 survived the war because it crashed on landing on its return to Horsham St Faith Base ( now Norwich Airport ) – and might have been sold, like many others, had it been undamaged.


It was returned to the City of Glasgow in 1998, as the last surviving Spitfire flown by 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron. The Scottish Executive supplied a budget to restore and display it. The restoration was a joint project between Glasgow Museums and National Museums Scotland.