The Longest Flight :: Sack the PR person...

Update:
MJ271/G-IRTY and OY-THP have now arrived in Iceland via Faroes - short film of MJ271 A2A now on their FB page. Hopefully the updates will be more regular now...


After a glitzy-razzmatazzy-celeb-heavy departure at Goodwood, the SS PR dept appears to have dropped the ball on "The Longest Flight" - no updates on their website or their social media as to what is occurring.
The flight tracker appears to be the electronic equivalent of a map on a wall with pins and string!

📌_____📌________📌________📍

With the organisation that has obviously gone into this adventure you would have though that a bespoke flight tracking system (such as used for Op Bolero II) might have been considered, rather than the hit and miss service provided by FR24 or such like...

Anyway, apparently MJ271 is still in Lossie and the PC-12 has flown on to Iceland (yesterday) and is now on the way back to Lossie.
Is this going to be the format for the remaining 26,500 miles? The PC-12 doing twice the distance?...


3/10 Could do better...

The journey begins...

The "Silver Spitfire" MJ271/G-IRTY has set off today on it's round the world trip - left Goodwood this afternoon, accompanied by the support ship Pilatus PC-12 OY-THP, with a stop at Newcastle and is now on the final UK leg into Lossiemouth before heading west...
Safe journey Spitfire...

Personal Me109!

I was watching something on the History Channel last night and a film clip of Me109s appeared briefly - the nearest carried the Reichsluftfahrtministerium Stammkennzeichen (RLM Factory Registration Code) code RG✚BL - "White or Yellow 5"...

According to the LEMB Stammkennzeichen Database Project , RG✚BL is listed as a Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 marked as White 5. Notes against the entry state “some say its a G-5 or G2/R6”.