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Hello folks! BRITISH LINK TO WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/109761230 CREDIT TO CHUCK OWL! PLEASE subscribe for more videos! Here is the emotional story and video of the Spitfire Mk1. Review : NORTH Lincolnshire motorcycling racer and speed ace Guy Martin returns to our screens tonight for a one-off special where he helps rebuild a Spitfire. Guy Martin's Spitfire, on Channel 4, sees the lorry mechanic, based at Kirmington, join a two-year project to rebuild a Spitfire which was shot down over northern France in 1940 and not recovered until the 1980s. He has risen to national fame with his TV series Speed, and whilst tonight's show is a one-off, a second series of his show will return to our screens this winter as he takes on four new adrenaline-fuelled challenges. But not before he joins a restoration team for a two year rebuild of the Mark I Spitfire, which was shot down on a beach in northern France in 1940, where it sank. The Supermarine Spitfire was Britain’s most successful fighter plane and remains an iconic symbol of the Second World War. Its pilot, RAF ace Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stephenson, escaped and headed for Belgium. The wreckage was finally recovered in the 1980s and stored in France for more than 20 years until it was purchased by a specialist aircraft restoration firm. In this special film, Guy celebrates the people behind this famous fighter and its heroic pilots – the factory workers who risked their lives building the aircraft and the mechanics who worked to repair, reload and refuel the planes and send them back into the skies to defend Britain. Spitfire N3200 was part of 19 Squadron, based at RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, where the restoration project was based. Guy’s mechanical skills are pushed to the limit as he takes part in every part of the reconstruction, following the original blueprints in forensic detail all the way to its inaugural flight. He even tests the fighter’s Browning machine guns to see their devastating firepower. The story of Sqdn Ldr Stephenson, who would become the Queen’s pilot, is like something from a Boy’s Own paper and his private diaries, written while imprisoned in Colditz, have been uncovered for the first time for the film. Spitfires carried little more than an hour’s worth of fuel and after just eight seconds of firing would run out of bullets, meaning they had to be turned around with lightning speed to be sent back into battle. The rebuild offers an extraordinary look at the amazing engineering and skills involved in building, flying and maintaining the aircraft. Please Subscribe for more stories of world war veterans or new topics. Basher136 ** I personally basher136 hold NO copyright to the Channel 4 TV episode of Guy Martin builds a spitfire. For educational purposes ONLY and pleasure of viewing. ALL credit goes to Channel 4 and their Partners for their hard work and dedication to produce the fantastic documentary of rebuilding a spitfire MK1**
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take that you nazi bastards
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did they actually use any parts at all from the original plane?
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fuck me this guy is hard to understand!@
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So beautiful! I love documentaries like this that they show how it's build, and show the history. And of course guy is a great presenter! Thanks for the upload mate
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who could possibly dislike this video
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Guy says he wouldn't work with a Formula 1 team... HA I just watched him in his F1 special and he says different in that video. He said he wouldn't work with American's, but he worked with a few when he won Pikes Peak.Don't knock it until you've tried it! Lesson learned.
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Beautiful bird!
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full respect : there weren't any original parts ?
could've lathed old bolts into rivots or something or place a piece of wreckage in the tail ?
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i see British people complaining about not understanding this dude , imagine us foreigners :).
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a few minutes in -- "this is the real deal" -- yeah... we'll see if they actually arm it with machine guns. I'm guessing it will be almost the real deal.
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I's sorry for every British person but 109 Emil was better plane that equivalent spitfire. The reason spitfire was thought to be better were the tactics German high command demand to the fighter pilots to use. Also 109 had something like 9 minutes airtime over Britain.
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The Mosquito was faster
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subtitles anyone...!?
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The prettiest wings ever made!
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Supermarine Spitfire and Lancaster Bomber my favorite and the best WW2 planes
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I wish they had a version without this idiot in it,he is a complete tool and ruined it.
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The sound a Spitfire makes under War Power a few feet off the deck it memorable ! ! !
Just like the sounds of Carter Gents air-raid sirens and Messerschmitt ME-109 & ME-110,,,,, Focke Wulf FW-190 Würger,,,,, Chance Vought F4U Corsair -
"im going 300mph hes going 300mph that mean where going 600mph" Face palm moment it means your both going 300mph
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You have to love how angry people get for someone sounding different. I can figure out what he's saying may not be as easy as I'd like but guess what it's life. It's a diverse planet have a little respect for one another. I'm a teenage American and I'm asking for some cultural acceptance. You know it must be bad if it's coming to that....