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For all who never had a chance to visit, or who want to revisit Shuttleworth.
In the first video, you can see mostly all their military aircraft, while the
bonus video shows more civil rarities, some of which I had never seen before.
Guest airplanes complete this widespan overview.

Make sure to watch at 720HD.
Enjoy!
   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9Ecf6GLRw

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Merlins and Griffons, 2 of the most beautiful Aeroplane sounds ever invented !!

 

...and they even look great! Here the sounds with one of the most beautiful WW2 fighters:

 

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Yeah I live in Derby, so very close to RR , they have a Merlin testbed engine which is on show an run at public displays a lot. And I saw that balbo at flying legends a couple of years back, the RR Spit flys over quite often too, which is nice.

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I've been up there in Derbyshire in the 80s, Trotski.

I remember a place called Birchover, north of Derby.

There were huge "thunder stones" which the ancient druids had used to impress the crowd.

And somewhere in the area was a cliff; a line of rocks, which was also well known there -

but I forgot the name.

 

And on another visit to England, I was standing on a high chalk hill near London,

when I heard that distinct sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin or Gryphon come closer.

A Spitfire on it's way to or from an airshow came passing our cliff, quite close.

We waved, and the pilot waved back! A great, totally unexpected sensation!

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