The Spitfire thread

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Here are a few that I have on spitfires through the years.
 

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The early marks of Spitfire are beautiful to me.

Not only engineering art but represent my peoples will to fight.

...oh and the Hurricane too.
 
Colin1 said:
That frontal shot getting his wheels up is superb

If you're using a scanner app try re-sizing to 800 pixels, the other dimensions should auto-size after that
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Actually i believe the bigger the better, they make great desktop images at their original size so I left them raw from the camera.
 
Spitfire VB BL628.

Had these pics sent to me by a mate.

Apparently the first few pics are from her maiden flight.

The last pics are from Oshkosh where it won Best Fighter at 2008 EAA AirVenture.

Enjoy

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The Basket said:
The early marks of Spitfire are beautiful to me.

Not only engineering art but represent my peoples will to fight.

...oh and the Hurricane too.
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I agree whole heartedly.. I love the early marks.. especially the Mk 1 2 with just the 8 machine guns.
I got to go to the Imperial War Museum in London a couple of years ago and they have Spitfire I R6915 hanging from the roof. Fantastic looking aircraft.
 
Here's the Spitfire that's in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the National Mall.
 

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A couple of years ago I was holidaying in Cornwall and as I was dring along to the next village to where I was staying a strange sight caught my eye. As I went closer it revealed iself as someones personal tribute to the Spitfire and the guys who flew it. The odd thing is this is nowhere near a runway, just someones back garden, how fantastic is that! Here are three pics I manged to take before I had to move on. I'd have loved to meet and speak with the householder.





 
Great shots guys. How I'd love a replica Spit outside the house! Jeremy Clarkson (For the non-Brits, he's a well-known presenter of motoring programmes on TV) has a Lightning F6 in his garden, lucky sod! (That's the BAC Lightning, not the Lockheed P38 photo recce bird BTW).
 
Airframes said:
Jeremy Clarkson (For the non-Brits, he's a well-known presenter of motoring programmes on TV) has a Lightning F6 in his garden, lucky sod! (That's the BAC Lightning, not the Lockheed P38 photo recce bird BTW).
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G'day Terry, do you happen to know if this guy still has a Vulcan nose on his front lawn?

 
Was recently given a box of photographs of various aircraft (mainly RAAF), and here are the Spitfire related pics.
Most of the pics are marked:

Department of Defence.
Ref. No.
Public Relations Canberra

Some jolly nice pics all up.
 

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Cool! I read about hauling the beer with a Spitfire from England to Normandy in the Johnnie Johnson book many years ago but I don't think I ever saw pictures of it being done!
If I remember right it was a Canadian sqaudron.
 
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