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Sadly, I have yet to get to this amazing event [Wanaka] ... but I caught this article on the TV3 site: Spitfire and Zero take to the skies again.

It says "A restored Spitfire took on a rare Japanese Zero for the display. The last time the two were in the sky together, they were arch-enemies in combat."

My question is ... did the Spit and Zero actually meet? If so, where, when ... and what mark of Spit would it have been by then?

This time in the Morning .. from Memory ... Darwin , Australia 1942 , i would need to research details but search this area out .

..and also in Burma and probably other areas of the Far East

theres a whole book on it...

http://www.amazon.com/Spitfire-Aces-Burma-...t/dp/1846034221

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Apr 5 2010, 09:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

theres a whole book on it...

Yip , I had the Commando The title , cannot remember but hell it was good reading

Burma is what it was all about. Very touching as commentator Jim Hickey's late father flew PR.XIX Spits in Burma and one time had a run-in with three A6Ms. Was a magnificent display and one I had no prior knowledge about at all. Have some passable photos to upload later today.

Never thought, or even dreamed, I would see a Spitfire and Zero together.

K5054NZ wrote:

QUOTE (K5054NZ @ Apr 7 2010, 07:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Burma is what it was all about. Very touching as commentator Jim Hickey's late father flew PR.XIX Spits in Burma and one time had a run-in with three A6Ms. Was a magnificent display and one I had no prior knowledge about at all. Have some passable photos to upload later today.

A PR spit vs 3 zeros???? GULP - don't like those odds! Reminds me of the story about the EF-111 pilot during the first Gulf War who scored a "manouvre kill" - managed to do so well at evading the MiG that was on his tail, that said MiG flew into the ground trying to get the kill!