I’m well impressed. And it has guns!
Very impressive restoration. Looks like it just came out of factory.
Love seeing it up in the air again.
nice
Beautiful!
Incidentally, for about half the cost (last I checked, a Spitfire went for about $2- to $2½ million), there’s a Hawker Sea Fury for sale for less than the cost of three new Cessna 172s.
I love to see warbirds getting the chance to get airborne again, thanks for that!
Meh. You’ve seen one Seafire you’ve seen them all.
Boo Hiss !!! 
I had a continuous chill down my spine from the moment they rolled out of the hangar until it peeled off at the end.
I have a few issues with the story though. The “machinist” claimed to be in Britain in 1940 with 4 or 5 hundred German bombers in the air and the noise they made with 4 engines was incredible.
Sorry, but how many German bombers had 4 engines? Apart from the Condor which wasn’t deployed in the Battle of Britain- and certainly there weren’t that many of them.
Apart from that I think it is great to have one serviceable again. I guess it has the Griffon engine rather than the Merlin.
He didn’t say they were *German *bombers.
I didn’t see a tailhook on the plane. I know they were a monster to land on carriers, with that narrow wheelbase, but no arresting method either?
What other 4 engined planes were over England in 1940? Certainly not Lancasters, or even Halifaxes. There were not sufficient numbers of Stirlings at that time.
You can just admit he got it wrong.
Probably a moot point. The noise of 200 4-engined bombers wouldn’t be much different than 200 2-engined bombers I’d have thought. Allied bombers wouldn’t have been massing over London either.
They did have arrestor gear according to Wiki.
Appears to be rotating anti-clockwise which would make it a Griffon.
It was the American restorer who specifically said 1940 when referring to the British machinist; the British guy merely commented how noisy it was with lots of airplanes, esp. four-engine planes, in the air at once. I’m guessing he was referring to the 1940s “War Years” in general, in which case you can add the USAAF 8th and their planes to the list of possible candidates.
He was wrong about the date, yes. His little-kid memories got mixed up.
This. The machinist was in England for more than just the Blitz. He would have experienced frequent aluminum overcasts of B-17s, B-24s, and at night, Lancs. Not to mention all of the twins and singles.
So the owner has a new Seafire, eh? I wonder if he’d like to buy my Coastal Command ‘Irvin’ jacket?
We need to make a new video to set his little kid memories straight!
Wow. That’s a fast plane at 440 mph.
I don’t know how he watched it take off with dry eyes. I would have been blubbering like a baby. I have no connection to it, and I got misty eyed watching it take off.
Re: Misquote -
Probably erroneous interview editing by the story creator who didn’t know better. He likely took the soundbite from one fellow talking about the the machinist’s history (talking about when the bombs were dropping) and matched it to the machinist answering a question about how noisy it was to be at a British airfield as a late war Allied air raid assembled on it’s way to Berlin.
A lack of historical context by the storyteller is thus exposed.
There is not much to my objection to the story, but I still don’t believe the business about so many 4 engined bombers over England (or London). They took off from different airfields and had pints away from England where they formed their groups. However, even in 1000 bomber raids they would not be over a German city at the same time- they were staggered to avoid collision.
Was he exaggerating- probably. Does it matter? Not really. Although I’m not sure how much context there is because he was in England at the time. If he was so young he would not have been working on a Seafire.