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Three Spitfires just went Northish over Chelmsford. Probably en-route to Duxford.

Yah!

At first we thought our chosen spot wasn't near the right place until.....

One flight in the far West crossing the Thames. We thought that one might be a bit distant.
Then 2 flights to the East. Slight grumbles to self that Site B option would have been near. And Then! The last flight of 4 planes flew virtually over head :-D :-D :-D
OH thinks they were 1 Hurricane and 3 Spitfires.
He's captured them on camera unlike his other specks against the clouds or my cloudscapes.
An hour's worth of blowing the cobwebs away and our private air-show to boot.

Heard the yellow flight go over our house in north Chelmsford on its way to Duxford but didn't get out quick enough to see them.
Blast!

Oh you lucky thing DET. I love Spitfires the sound is out of this world :-D :-D :-D :-D

The distant ethereal sound of a Merlin engine ... a wild animal once heard never forgotten the very sound of freedom.

not that some people care
http://goo.gl/s7RH0d

I thought I had heard a helicopter but , when I looked out, it turned out to be a bomber, I think, which was then way on over the trees towards Selsey.

A long time later I heard what I thought was the sound of a Spitfire but didn't see it through the trees.

A couple more groups of planes came over with big spaces between them.

I would have had a much better view from the front of the house but my neighbour with dementia wanted to see them and he has his safe area at the back of the house where he can't escape so I stayed round the back with him.

Spitfires always make me think of hot, lazy, summer afternoons and I really don't know why.

You beat me to it Rollo, I was going to put it on the other thread. What a scruff as well.

About right for him Rollo, I shall say no more as I would get RR'd :-| :-| :-| :-|

Sharron, you may not have had as good as view as you might have, but you kept an elderly man company. That's the most important thing.
Did they bring back any memories or is he too young?

Some of the BoB News Reels show people harvesting in the fields - perhaps that's were you get the summer days feelings from.

He was twelve at the time and he says he was working on the farm which I can believe as I had my first job at ten.

It all happened over here I believe.

Sharon's lazy summer afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYd4slCQzHc

And what about mine Rolo?

"HE FORGOT THE ""R""..............."!

Battle of Britain 15 Sep 2015

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/edit/18726013
No idea which planes these were. Any ideas?

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/18727751
This may be a later photo of the same flight, but showing 4 planes instead of 3.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/18728972
xYellowx - Edit - Purple! Flight – 3 Spitfires, 1 Hurricane.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/18728982
View looking North across to Essex. It looks better on a full screen than the Keepsafe.

Det, I found this order of takeoff on the web and presumably the sections were in that order but there is no indication of how many in each section.

P7350/EBG Spitfire IIa BBMF
SM520/KJI Spitfire TR9 G-ILDA
PV202/GRH Spitfire TR9 G-TRIX
AB910/FSH Spitfire LFVb BBMF
MK356/5JK Spitfire LF.IX BBMF
PZ865/SEC Hurricane IIc BBMF
LF363/JXB Hurricane IIc BBMF
TE311/4DV Spitfire LF.XVIe
R4118/UPW Hurricane i G-HUPW
PL965 Spitfire PRXI G-MKXI
TD248/CRS Spitfire LF XVIe G-OXVI
MV268/JEJ Spitfire XIV G-SPIT
SL633/JT10 Spitfire IX N633VS
X4650/KLA Spitfire 1a G-CGUK
ML407/OUV Spitfire TR9 G-LFIX
PP972/115 Seafire II G-BUAR
L6739/QYP Blenhiem I G-BPIV
MH434/ZDB Spitfire IX G-ASJV
P7308/XRD Spifire 1a G-AIST
EP120/AEA Spitfire LFVb G-LFVB
TD314/FXP Spitfire IX G-CGYJ
N3200/QV Spitfire 1 G-CFGJ
BM597/JHC Spitfire vb G-MKVB
P3700/RFE Hurricane 1 G-HURI
SX336/105 Seafire XVII G-KASX
TA805/FXM Spitfire IX G-PMNF
P2921/GZL Hurricane IIb G-TWTD
TE184/DUN Spitfire LFXVI G-MXVI
AG244 Hurricane IIb G-CBOE
3W17 Spitfire LFIX PH-OUQ
MT928/ZXM Spitfire LFVIIc D-FEUR
RR232 Spitfire IX G-BRSF
KH774/GAS P-51 G-SHWN

Your second photo shows the Blenheim and presumably the three Spitfires with it are adjacent to it in the list.

Look at the aircraft in http://www.battleofbritainday.co.uk/#!aircraft/c1vpn to see if you can match the colour schemes.

One of my rellies flew a Blenheim during the Battle of Britain. They were used to attack Luftwaffe airfields with varying degrees of success. My rellie stayed alive and went on to fly Mosquitos which was quite another story.

Thank you Ken - that's really useful.

They must have been from Orange or Yellow, which means the Spitfires we identified came from Purple flight! That was definately the last one which came over. It was on a different flight path which makes sense.
Shall edit accordingly

They flew right over our house at Swindon so we had a grandstand view. I waved to them, but I don't think they saw! It was a splendid sight.
I had two rellies in the RAF, one, my stepfather survived, the other my natural father did not. Stepfather was in the Far East, and was POW, but that's another story.

One that flew over me had two different colours which may have been black and white on it.

I have tried to see it on the television films but couldn't.

Sharron, if you look at the link below it shows the colour schemes of the individual aircraft.

http://www.battleofbritainday.co.uk/#!aircraft/c1vpn