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  2. Invasion stripes - Wikipedia

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    The stripes were five alternating black and white stripes. On single-engine aircraft each stripe was to be 18 inches (46 cm) wide, placed 6 inches (15 cm) inboard of the roundels on the wings and 18 inches (46 cm) forward of the leading edge of the tailplane on the fuselage. National markings and serial number were not to be obliterated.

  3. Supermarine Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    Audio recording of Spitfire fly-past at the 2011 family day at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire Supermarine Spitfire G-AWGB landing at Biggin Hill Airport, June 2024. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.

  4. The First of the Few - Wikipedia

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    The First of the Few (US title Spitfire) is a 1942 British black-and-white biographical film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, who stars as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.

  5. Aircraft camouflage - Wikipedia

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    Supermarine Spitfire in disruptively patterned RAF 'Sand and Spinach' uppersurface camouflage, 1941. During the Munich Crisis of 1938, the Royal Air Force implemented plans to camouflage its aircraft in its disruptively patterned Temperate Land Scheme of "Dark Earth" and "Dark Green" above and "Sky" (similar to a duck egg blue) below.

  6. Supermarine Spitfire operational history - Wikipedia

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    November 1942 photo of a very early Mk IXb of 306 (Polish) ToruĊ„ski Squadron.. The Supermarine Spitfire, the only British fighter to be manufactured before, during and after the Second World War, was designed as a short-range fighter capable of defending Britain from bomber attack [1] and achieved legendary status fulfilling this role during the Battle of Britain. [2]

  7. USAAF unit identification aircraft markings - Wikipedia

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    The first Eighth Air Force aircraft to receive unit markings were the Spitfires of the 4th and 31st Fighter Groups training with RAF Fighter Command in September 1942. The markings were two-letter fuselage squadron codes located on one side of the national insignia and a single letter aircraft code on the other side.

  8. List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires - Wikipedia

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    TE554, The Black Spitfire Airworthy. Spitfire LF Mk.IXe TE554. The Black Spitfire, and former Israeli Air Force 20-57. The personal mount of former Israeli Air Force Chief of Staff and president Ezer Weizman, it is used for ceremonial flying displays and based at the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim. [68] [69] Static display. Spitfire F Mk ...

  9. No. 19 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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    Squadron Leader Cozens leading a formation of six new Spitfire Mk.Is of No. 19 Squadron, 31 October 1938 No. 19 Squadron was disbanded after the First World War on 31 December 1919. [ 15 ] On 1 April 1923, the squadron was reformed at RAF Duxford with the Sopwith Snipe , initially operating as part of No. 2 Flying Training School (No. 2 FTS).