A Gathering Of Mustangs -

Thanks for sharing, it is an amazing story and awesome to see the old Ace fly again. It makes me proud and at the same time humble that our cars share the same name with the P-51.

This is one emotion-producing video for us ol' pilots.... I've been privileged to have flown in one of these, unforgettable of course, thanks a bunch for sharing it with us.

A great film, enjoyed it.

I have always had an affection for WW2 fighters, stems from stories told by my father of watching dogfights over the Midlands when he was a child.

So in my 40th year I wrote to Carolyn Grace who owns a MK 1X Spitfire

ML407 to ask if She would take me for a ride.

ML407 was credited with the first kill on D day over the beaches of Normandy and was discovered by her husband Nick in piles of boxes in Scotland.

Nick rebuilt her, she was converted to a 2 seat dual control trainer after the war, and flew her until he was tragicly killed in a car accident.

Anyhow Carolyn kindly let me fly with her and I got to fly the plane from the east coast back to base at Duxford Cambridgeshire.

We flew over the American war Cemetary at Madingly and the sight of the cresent of white crosses under the wing of a Spitfire brought tears to my eyes.

Now in my 50th year I have just been invited to fly in ML407 again, I hope it will be as an incredible experience as last time.

My thanks goes to all those who flew in that conflict.

ml407.co.uk

Edited by - cobraboy on 04/01/2010 17:18:06

Thanks a million, that was great.

/Bo

I echo the "thanks a million" quote from Bo, and thanks even more to that greatest of generations, better men and women than me.

Wow! What a great story!

My father was a combat pilot in WW2 and these guys are different men then of today.Things meant something and thought of different then men or people look at them today.He's been gone for 5 years now but I always had an appreciation for what these guys did and sad to say there are getting fewer by the day!

I know this is an old one but I saw some of that filming at c-bus

and had no Idea this was the result. truly awesome and inspiring.

Thank you for this post it is great. I passed it on to several friends and they too really enjoyed it. When growing up our neighbor a WW2 ace, flew the Mustang in Europe, his son used to show us some of his gun camera movies. Very impressive.......

That was a great video, thanks for sharing.