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The last of the few: Photographer captures pin-sharp images of the final 55 airworthy Spitfires using just a handheld camera
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There are several down here in Australia.Saw two of them this month, and one other earlier this year.
KavaKidd sent the same URL to me the other day, and I pointed this out.
Sloppy writing in the UK paper, great shots.
It IS the most beautiful fighter, ever.
The MkIA and MkIIA have the cleanest lines, along with the unarmed PR marks.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/21/16
My personal favourite from that era is the Hawker Sea Fury
Cheers,
John K
Built several models of that one when I was a kid (and Mustang, Thunderbolt, ME-109....)
Best British WWII fighter ?
That is an excellent shot!
Just fyi, there are a couple of P-5xx right near here at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum at Addison airport. Every now and then, they fly over the house. But the coolest thing is when the DC-3 flies over. THAT is cool.
Thanks for the photo!
:)
Beautiful bird!
My all time favorite WW II plane is the P-47 Thunderbolt, aka the "jug".
Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
Thanks!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
ME 262 - exotic! Good thing not too many of these things made it into the war.
Edits: 05/19/16
The diversion to a bomber role - by Adolf - didn't worsen or effect those problems just delayed its quantity introduction as a fighter by a few months.
IE too late.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
great pic! thanks for posting. I have always liked the Spitfires and read recently that at some altitudes they were even more capable than the U.S. P51s.
thanks again for posting,
roN
The EARLY models had CARBURETORS and were therefore NOT as agile as later models which came with Fuel Injection. I don't know when the change was made.
Too much is never enough
B
...I thought you were talking about this Spitfire.
(nt)
I like the de Havilland Mosquito, too.
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