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dave hadfield
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Dave Hadfield is Chief Pilot with the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, in association with Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, and flies many Warbird types such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Westland Lysander, and P-51 Mustang. He performs airshow displays in these, and other aircraft. In the summer of 2018, Hadfield flew Spitfire TE-294 from Gatineau Q.C. to Comox BC and back, in a program called "5,000 Miles In A Spitfire". He has about 28,000 hours, and comes from a flying family, eight of which are pilots, including Commander Chris Hadfield.
His wife Robin Hadfield is a noted Air Race and Rally pilot, and President of the 99s. They own a Fairchild 24W and an RV6a.
His wife Robin Hadfield is a noted Air Race and Rally pilot, and President of the 99s. They own a Fairchild 24W and an RV6a.
Spitfire Flying, Geneseo Airshow, 2024
Cockpit video of flying a Spitfire IX in a formation with a Mustang, Corsair, and Warhawk in a Missing-Man display, plus flybys with pyro.
The Spitfire is TE-294, part of the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, located at the Gatineau Airport, just across the river from Ottawa, Canada. Maintenance is accomplished by Vintech Aero -- who were rectifying a snag on the Hurricane there at Geneseo, which is why it didn't appear in this video.
Our host was the National Warplane Museum. Their summer airshow is a real grass-roots delight -- "The Greatest Show On Turf". I've flown there many times, and my father did as well about 25 years ago in his Stampe SV4B.
www.hadfield.ca
Song Of The Spitfire (c)2019 by Dave Hadfield
The Spitfire is TE-294, part of the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, located at the Gatineau Airport, just across the river from Ottawa, Canada. Maintenance is accomplished by Vintech Aero -- who were rectifying a snag on the Hurricane there at Geneseo, which is why it didn't appear in this video.
Our host was the National Warplane Museum. Their summer airshow is a real grass-roots delight -- "The Greatest Show On Turf". I've flown there many times, and my father did as well about 25 years ago in his Stampe SV4B.
www.hadfield.ca
Song Of The Spitfire (c)2019 by Dave Hadfield
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Yacht "Surprise", getting under way under sail-alone
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A short clip of Gord Laco and Caroline in their Alberg 30, departing the anchorage of Methodist Point in Georgian Bay, without using the motor at all. Taken from our 1947 wooden ketch "Drake III". Gord was Lead Historical Consultant for the film "Master and Commander", and many others. And he has just been made an Honorary Captain of the Royal Canadian Navy. He hand-built that dinghy BTW, a Nut...
Deerly Appreciated
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Well, what the heck, they didn't knock over all the bird feeders. Very polite quadrupeds.
Shadow of a Spitfire (and a Mustang)
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Photo Flight mission, Geneseo, 2024. It occurred to me that most pilots have never seen their shadow placed on another aircraft, so I grabbed this short clip from my helmet-cam. These flights usually take the form of several 360s. As the light changes the photographers do their thing. They also call: "Spitfire, up a bit. Mustang, back a bit." So we are always moving around. And it's slightly we...
Hot Tent - A Traditional Design Made From Modern Materials
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I first used a friend's Wall Tent in the early 1980s. It was made from Egyptian Cotton wonderful lightweight breathable stuff. In 1986 when I wanted to have one custom-made the material was unavailable so I substituted modern fabrics. They worked very well I'm still using it! www.hadfield.ca This video is a walk-through of the Wall Tent during a typical camp-day on a hand-hauling toboggan trip ...
Westland Lysander Cockpit Explained
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The cockpit of the Westland Lysander IIIa is very unique, especially to pilots from North America. Many of the controls and indicators are different from modern aircraft and even from other historic British aircraft like the Spitfire and Hurricane and Moths which Dave also flies. Here's an explanation of how it all works during a flight, accompanied by personal helmet-cam video clips of flying ...
Spitfire: Four-Rolls Rectangle (from the cockpit)
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A Spitfire is not the best-rolling fighter of WW2, but it sure feels nice when you exercise it. From today's End-Of-Season flight, 25 Nov 2024. Notice that the rolls are to the right. "That ain't usual." But the Spitfire is always very responsive to the pilot which is it's glory.
How to Fly a Spitfire in Formation
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Formation-flying in-cockpit video during an airshow with "Victory Flight". Helmet-cam from the Spitfire, and Mustang, with commentary by Dave Hadfield. www.hadfield.ca Sept 06, 2024, AeroGatineau
Westland Lysander Test-Flight
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Every year after the Annual Inspection the pilot takes the aeroplane up and makes sure that it's serviceable. This short video is a series of linked clips, not the full test-sequence, but I hope it conveys the feel of a flight of this kind. This is the only Westland Lysander, and the only Bristol Mercury engine, flying in North America. It's a IIIA, built in Malton, Ontario in 1942 by National ...
Starting the Warner 165 in a 1947 Fairchild 24W
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We had to completely re-string all the ignition leads (inside that ridiculous, impossibly small conduit-ring) as part of the installation of this zero-timed Warner 165 into our Fairchild 24W. Sure glad the thing worked the spark going to the right places at the right time. I also discovered (in the process of removing the old paint) that the ring is made of brass. So I polished it bright making...
Ken and Barbie, "Ken's Song"
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I wrote this goofy little thing with my son about 20 years ago. We'd been making maple syrup all day and I think we'd consumed too much sugar. Anyway, Robin recorded this recently while at a musical get-together with Jerry and Liz, so I thought I'd post it. (Sorry about the dish-noises from the kitchen.) Ken's Song (c) 2003 by Dave Hadfield My name is Ken, I'm Barbie's boyfriend I live in most ...
Spit and P-40 Geneseo pass
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A very short clip from my helmet-cam during a banana-pass at Geneseo, 2024. Thom Richard in the P-40. He FB-shared a video of this flight taken from his cockpit, so I've put up this bit to show what it looked like from the Spitfire side. It's interesting to fly WITH a P-40 after so many years being inside it...
Lysander cockpit in flight
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Short clip from the first flight of the season in our Mk IIIa Lysander. It will be based in Collingwood ON soon.
Drake III, 1946 46ft wooden ketch, fall sail 2023
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Drake III, 1946 46ft wooden ketch, fall sail 2023
Hurricane, Spitfire, Mustang -- with an F-18 Hornet. Pilot's View.
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Hurricane, Spitfire, Mustang with an F-18 Hornet. Pilot's View.
CF-18 Hornet Formation-Break, from Spitfire
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CF-18 Hornet Formation-Break, from Spitfire
Thunderstorm, in a 76 year-old wooden boat
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Thunderstorm, in a 76 year-old wooden boat
Had to check my millibars to inches of mercury calculations to verify the "cheat sheet" taped to the cockpit by your left knee. It appears to be a barometer cross reference for European altimeter. Good to see airspeed in Miles Per Hour. Looked close to 250 at one point with nose low. Restrictions lifted for airshows?
Yes. We have no 210 kts limit in airshows because it would compromise safety. However, in the Canadian system, this has to be declared in the application for the SFOC. Then the regulator has a look at the wider envelope.
Great video and great song Mr. Hadfield . It was that very day I was guided by one of your mechanics to sit in that very seat you fly in . That day I was able to fulfill a childhood dream of just to sit in a real Spitfire and at 58 years I was like a 9 year old . Was also the first time I saw a Spit in flight and you did a great job putting it through its paces. I hope I get to see that Spitfire and You fly again and hopefully we can meet . Thank you for posting this video ,that was a wonderful day for me. Best wishes and happy safe flying, David W.
@@MillieSadie1 Great story, David. I’ll pass it along to the tech who made it happen for you.
You lucky man Dave! Awesome! Greetings from Bergen, Norway
Thanks for this. I haven't heard the term Mark 1 eyeball for 30 years. Ex RCAF here.
Everything in our fighters is that way. Pure VFR.
Thanks so much for this, Dave.
Outstanding video! Thank you for sharing!
Nice!!
Fantastic, thanks for recording and sharing that video! It must take some getting used to before taxiing a Spitfire so well on grass. By the way, we can hear the characteristic air deflating sound when you break for your final turn, just before you park.
Yes, when you release the brake lever with your right hand, the air pressure from the brake line is vented into the cockpit. Same with the flaps.
Absolutley superb, thanks so much for posting these video's.
THANK YOU Dave for the fly along!!! I was there and truly enjoyed the show. I was able to get some great action shots of you and crew. Really cool to see your view of the show. Thinking hard about making the trip again. Fair skies and light winds.
Thanks Bob. I'd love to see some of your photos. Please get in touch, dave at hadfield dot ca .
What ignomarus comes with the idea of explosions? We all enjoy the sound of the merlins. Not many chances of hearing them and then disturb.
Keep up the good work mr. Hadfield. Sharing those glorious moments with us. It 's all delightful: the ample annotations, the checks, the enginestarts, the runups, the starts, the flights and of course the landings. Good luck !!!
Looking out at that elliptical wing must never get old.. I can imagine it’s a real ‘pinch me’ moment.. even when you fly it regularly. “I am flying a Spitfire!” Fantastic as always Dave 🔥👊🏼
Another awesome video! :-)
I flew with Bill several times in TE308, nothing like the looking out on that wing.
Thanks for the wonderful film. Geneseo NY is a centre of free-flight model aviation too, including Spitfires and other world-class free-flight models, on a regular basis. th-cam.com/video/vJqAD4qcINU/w-d-xo.html
So incredible!
What a great video! Thanks!
"Song of the Spitfire" is the perfect ending to your video today. Thanks for sharing. Love Ottawa. 😊
Your pure joy at flying the Spit shines through this video. I was lucky enough to fly with "Major" Day in MJ627 and I still regard it as one of the best experiences of my life. Keep posting the video's, thank you Mr H.
Wonderful show, thank you
Sorry dave another great vid
Do us all a favour dave and post all the planes youve flown please
That's a bit of a homework project, Alan ;)
@davehadfield5906 yes i realize dave. Thanks for the response.(you can do it when youre stuck in the house a few days with flu haha.) x
Nice work.
What a beautiful boat! Russ, Sailing Vessel Coyote, Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, Long Beach, California
Have you ever tried a snowboard? Curious how it would compare to your other examples. Thanks for the video.
Thanks! No I haven't. Interesting idea. Wrong shape and too short, but if you got 2 or more, and cut-and-spliced them together, I guess you could come up with a load-bearing rig that would stay in a snowshoe track.
good job.
Gorgeous boat! Look at that sheer and those overhangs.
Looks like my old Kittiwake 23 🥺🥹
What happened to the tiller?
there are still a few real sailors left!
Wow! hats off to Gord!! Master & Commander is a fantastic film and his part in its creation was pivotal.
Bon voyage
looks faster than F-16 in DCS...
How neat! ..I love trains. My dad hopped trains 'cross Canada as did many young men in the '30's. Your video is very informative and brings back a memory of me and my son (in Europe) after a castle tour, unwittingly waiting on the wrong side of the street in a small village for a return bus to a train station. Finally when it was getting dark we crossed over to catch the next bus that we saw (which was the last one). The bus had to cross a small local airstrip c/w with traffic lights. The driver let us off as close as he could to the station in a nearby town and we ran through back lanes in the darkness to catch the last train home! What an adventure! 🚂🚃🚃🚃 In the 70's we had also travelled on the Edmonton - Calgary Dayliner (CN I think) but I don't know what kind of train. Ah .. nostalga! Such a pity that Canada got rid of our trains. Your footage is well put together. I like your tribute song too! ♬‧*˚✧
Love your video!!!! In the United States check out Kni-co stoves. Love my Packer stove.
He did my preflight solo mountainview. Great song on an aviation legend. GOLDEN HAWKS just magnificent.
SHE FLEW (( NIGHT FLIGHTS IN RURAL INLAND GREECE !!// AGENTS// RESISTANT// DURING THE WAR)) ALSO !!
>> LYSANDER !!,> GRECIAN !!> LYSANDROS> ΛΥΣΣΑΝΔΡΟΣ>LYSANDER !!!,,,,,
Where can I get this great song ?
Wow @davehadfield5906! What a beautiful love song, Dave! Great to have such an extended family to celebrate with you too. Thanks for sharing! 👍 Chris in Saskatoon.
Thanks! I write more songs about canoes than relationships, but this one was personal.
Re-arm and re-fuel and off again.
Such a beautiful FA! Thank you for sharing this vid.
Is this the guy that was an astronaut on the space station???
"The guy" is me, Dave Hadfield. The astronaut is Chris. I'm his big brother.
@@davehadfield5906 That explains the reason why your voices sound identical. I remember Chris for him singing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" up in the space station with his guitar.
Two nations designed something to meet roughly the same goal, I must say the Germans did a superior job with the Storch, the Lysander is complex and ugly.
The two aircraft design-goals were not at all similar. The Storch is a short-field airplane and nothing else. The Lysander can fly at 200 mph. If you tried that in a Storch the wings would rip off. And the Lysander could fly 400 miles into France and come back the same night, carrying as many spies as you could cram into it. The Storch is a much better STOL aircraft. But that's all it does.
@@davehadfield5906 It still did not win any price being the most ugly, the Fairy Gannet took that.
@ No argument there...
Was the Mercury a sleeve valve or poppet valve engine?
Poppet-valve in this one. The Lysander Mk II was powered by a Bristol Perseus sleeve-valve -- none are flying anywhere.
I remember that German spotters distinguished between aircraft and Lysanders. It's not very pretty but it is an interesting aircraft. I built a rubber band powered one when I was 14 years old. It is a very stable design.
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My grandfather was a pilot with the AVG. He loved his P-40. Later he was transferred and ended up in a P-38. He liked the cannon in the P-38 but said he would gladly trade it for a P-40.
I flew the P-40 for quite a few years in airshow displays. Great airplane, except for the landing gear system.
@davehadfield5906 I've flown in one also. Steve Hinton is a buddy.
They look pretty healthy, 👍
Beautyfull!