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Formation Fun over the White Cliffs

Ridders

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Hello from the UK, a short video of some RV formation over the south coast of England, along the white chalk cliffs (known as the seven sisters) past Beachy Head lighthouse and the Pevensey marshes (near where William came ashore in 1066) all in the setting sun of a lovely summers evening.
RV9A and RV6

 
Ridders said:
Hello from the UK, a short video of some RV formation over the south coast of England, along the white chalk cliffs (known as the seven sisters) past Beachy Head lighthouse and the Pevensey marshes (near where William came ashore in 1066) all in the setting sun of a lovely summers evening.
RV9A and RV6

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Is 29.7c hot? I don't understand the exchange rate, Ahh, google is my friend. It was 40c here yesterday and 38.3 today. :ROFLMAO: Great video!
 
Great video! Flying in Battle of Britain battleground. My great uncle was a tail gunner and survived 28 sorties in the 8th Air Force. The only thing I heard about his experience was "when we saw the white cliffs we knew we were "home". Gorgeous and made me think a bit about the greatest generation in the air.
 
Ridders said:
Hello from the UK, a short video of some RV formation over the south coast of England, along the white chalk cliffs (known as the seven sisters) past Beachy Head lighthouse and the Pevensey marshes (near where William came ashore in 1066) all in the setting sun of a lovely summers evening.
RV9A and RV6

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Great video Thank You! Those white cliffs are beautiful. While standing in line at Petes Garage Bar at OshKosh waiting for our sandwich's , I spoke with a young man from England attending his first OshKosh. He flew an RV-6 with O-320 constant speed. I seem to recall he lived in the Firth of Fourth area. Might that have been you? Unfortunately we did not exchange names. I fly a RV-4.
 
Thanks for the kind comments all :cool:

We did indeed fly past the Bomber Command memorial that is perched on the clifftop, right where so many flew over as they headed to the continent, many sadly not to return. There is also RAF Friston that was on the hills just at the start of the video, (although its not visible as an airfield now) which was an emergency landing ground and later had fighter aircraft based there. Finally the airfield I am based at ( Grass strip, 475m /1600ft) and landed at in the video was an ALG (Advanced landing ground) where fighter aircraft were based for D-Day and provided top cover for the landings. It was 3x longer back then and had two runways. The Sussex coast is a Beautiful area.

RotaVR: Firth of Forth is in Scotland, so quite a distance from south - although my friend in his lovely RV6 was indeed at oshkosh this year.

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RotaVR said:
Great video Thank You! Those white cliffs are beautiful. While standing in line at Petes Garage Bar at OshKosh waiting for our sandwich's , I spoke with a young man from England attending his first OshKosh. He flew an RV-6 with O-320 constant speed. I seem to recall he lived in the Firth of Fourth area. Might that have been you? Unfortunately we did not exchange names. I fly a RV-4.
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Yes that was me you spoke to at Osh! I’m in my RV6 in this video.
 
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