Posts Tagged ‘spitfire’

03/12/2009 by admin

is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries The Supermarine Spitfire through the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used into the 1950s both as a front line fighter and in secondary roles. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft [...]

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Reginald J. Mitchell developed a racing seaplane, the Supermarine S6B, which won the Schneider Trophy on 13th September, 1931. During the contest the aircraft reached 340 mph (547 km/h).
In 1934 the Air Ministry announced that it was looking for a new fighter plane. Mitchell, whose company was now part of Vickers Aviation, decided to [...]

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