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davejb
Ive found all this interesting reading but i have been debating whether or not to relate the following just because there will be someone who will try to come up with a reasonable explanation, but i believe there isnt one , at least not a straight forward scientific one. Now i keep an open mind about most things, including the possibility of "spirits" or whatever you want to call them, reincarnation etc so here we go, bearing in mind that i do not remember doing any of this but do remember the day and the occassion. When i was 7yrs old my dad took me to Farnborough Air show for a birthday treat, even then i had started to catch the bug that we all have to this day. Back then there wasnt the huge crowds that you get now but enough, and there wasnt the same security around the aircraft nor barriers , you could walk right up to the planes and stand beside them, touch them etc, there was a spitfire that was parked in the holding area either waiting for its slot or had been flying one of the two, anyway my dad was talking to this guy right beside the plane, apparently i wandered off climbed onto the wing , left side and got into the cockpit, when they both realised i had gone the guy who was with my dad must have guessed where i was but instead of roasting me alive unbeknown to me he watched me from the wing, now this i do not remember doing at all, according to this guy and what my dad told me many yrs later i was performing the pre flight checks exactly how it was to be done according to regulations. The guy who had been talking to my dad was the pilot and he had actually flown spitfires during the war and was still a display pilot and that was the one he had been flying during the show. This chap couldnt believe what i did nor could dad, but the guy was so shocked that he asked me to do it again, now this bit i sort of remember , he made me jump as if i was half asleep, and i do remember that i got scared because i thought that i was in trouble but i didnt know what he was talking about, i had no idea as to what i had done nor any recollection of doing it to this day. Apparently it even spooked this pilot and he told another couple of chaps who came over and asked my dad a load of question as to where i could have learnt this proceedure,obviously dad had no answers, and it remains a mystery to me to this day, i still have no idea what the pre flight checks entail but since that day i have had a warm and thrilling feeling come over me every time i see or hear the sound of a spitfire, i will drop everything just to see one flying or be near one and this isnt just enthusiasm or a plane nut its just with the spitfire, i am continually being nagged by the wife or the kids, who are all now adults about this obsession with this one plane and the wife dreads one flying over as im out in the garden watching or hearing it from a distance, now if anyone can explain this occurrence and please dont say its coincidence, according to dad , the pilot ruled that out as i performed everything to the letter, without even thinking about it ,as if it was second nature .
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