Re: [WAIP] Spitfire Down! Spitfire Down!
Cool! This will be a good dio to see. Quite sentimental about the old Spitfire, me.
If you're doing hedgerows then how about two with a sunken lane between? The Tilly could be parked just short of the holes in the hedgerows. Also, in the S.E. of England the hedgerows are made up of planted trees and bushes etc:
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/english-hedges.htm
- so you don't need to worry about stone cores or anything, like these that we have here in Cornwall. Hitting one of these is
not a good idea:
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/drystone.htm
They look nice and soft and green and easy to run into if you have an accident, but that's because they've got obteen hundred years of greenery disguising them! Quite a few fatal accidents here involve dry stone walls - hitting one with a Spitfire would be 'interesting'!
I've grown up hearing all about the bombing raids my parents and older relatives went through, especially during the Blitz, and how they would watch the dog fights overhead. Got a photo somewhere of my mother as a kid, sitting in her grandparent's garden with a whirling mass of fighters, contrails and smoke etc right above and behind her. They still come out with things I've never heard mentioned before, even now.
Heh, ironic to think that my first fiancé's grandfather was a Heinkel 111 pilot and actually one of the guys dropping bombs on my father! Crazy world, hey?
