It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. Flown by pilots of many nations, it saw service as far afield as Australia and the Soviet Union. "Spitfire: The Biography" is a celebration of ...
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It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. Flown by pilots of many nations, it saw service as far afield as Australia and the Soviet Union. "Spitfire: The Biography" is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it, and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it. It is also about a boy who wished he could have been a Second World War fighter pilot and who was later able to fly the aircraft that took his father into combat.
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Near Fine. 1843545276. Fine mid blue boards, 8 vo., hardback, near fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, price clipped, no inscriptions or marks, illustrated endpapers, ix, 260 pages including index. Illustrated in black and white, comprehensive information about the design, use and role played by this aircraft in World War II. Aside from the prototype K5054 there were five key models Mk 1, V, IX, and XIV and F24 Technical Specificinations are shown in diagrmatic form. This plane was central the RAF's successful strategy and remains a plane that is of historical significnance to Britain. It is now 80 years since the Spitfire first made its debut..
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