WW2 fighters cleared to fly after pilot death
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) stopped using its Merlin-engined Hurricanes and Spitfires following the death of ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Supermarine Spitfire
Powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, the Spitfire first entered RAF service with No. 19 Squadron at Duxford on August 4, 1938. Its true test came during the Battle of Britain in 1940. While ...
Spitfires and Hurricanes cleared to fly after pilot’s death
RAF aerial display group was grounded after death of Squadron Leader Mark Long when his plane crashed after take-off in May ...
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Maiden Flight of the Spitfire
Robert McLean, who chaired Vickers’ aviation division, named it after his teenage daughter Annie: he called her a little spitfire. ‘It’s the sort of bloody silly name they would give it,’ Mitchell ...
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The former Spitfire factory building Britain’s drone army
Britain’s longest-running aircraft factory has built it all – from Spitfires and Seafire planes to the Sea King, Lynx and Merlin helicopters. But now a crack team of engineers at the Leonardo ...
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