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Spitfire LF Mk IX MH434 of Duxford's Old Flying Machine Company.. The British Supermarine Spitfire was facing several challenges by mid-1942. The debut of the formidable Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in late 1941 had caused problems for RAF fighter squadrons flying the latest Spitfire Mk Vb. [2]
The restored warbird, featured in the blockbuster "Battle of Britain," has 95 percent of its original parts. It's selling for $6.1 million.
The wreckage was later exported to the United Kingdom, rebuilt as a high-back Spitfire, re-registered as G-PBIX and flew again in 2013 in No. 322 (Dutch) Squadron markings of 3W-P. [186] RW382 was repainted in 2020 as a Spitfire (WZ-RR) from 309th Fighter Squadron USAAF flown by Lieutenant Robert Conner in Italy 1944.
The Spitfire was also adopted for service on aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy; in this role they were renamed Supermarine Seafire. Although the first version of the Seafire, the Seafire Ib, was a straight adaptation of the Spitfire Vb, successive variants incorporated much needed strengthening of the basic structure of the airframe and ...
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Spitfire XIV of 350 (Belgian) Squadron of the Spitfire XIV wing based at Lympne, Kent 1944. This aircraft is carrying a 30 gal "slipper" drop tank under the centre-section. The first Griffon-powered Spitfires suffered from poor high altitude performance due to having only a single stage supercharged engine. By 1943, Rolls-Royce engineers had ...
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