Spitfire Aerobatics -- New!

Rolls and loops in a Spitfire IX at Gatineau, Canada, Aug 2021. Cockpit video of one complete flight, with Dave Hadfield. www.hadfield.ca Spitfire TE-294 is part of the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, flown in association with Vintage Wings of Canada. www.vintagewings.ca NOTE: There are always 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.