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The Spitfire suffered a landing accident on 7 July 2023, sustaining damage to the propeller, gear and underside of the aircraft. [14] This would see the aircraft sold to Australia to have its rebuild take place for a new owner. [15] It took flight once's more on October 22, 2024 [16] Spitfire LF Mk.XVIe TB863 (VH-XVI).
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 ...
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.
The Beast (mk2) at Wings and Wheels in 2014.. In the 1960s, engineer Paul Jameson put a Rolls-Royce Meteor engine into a chassis he built himself. [3] He did not get around to building a body, and sold the car to Epsom-based automatic transmission specialist John Dodd, who had supplied the automatic gearbox.
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 ...
Marvel’s lone bright spot in 2023 was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which hit $845.6 million worldwide before director James Gunn went off to helm Superman as the new co-CEO of DC Studios.
In May 2024, The Guardian reported that the Unitree Go2 robot has been used during China's joint military drills with Cambodia, having an automatic rifle on its back. According to the newspaper, this was based on footage broadcast by China Central Television . [ 10 ]
The Spitfire Story. London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1982. ISBN 0-86720-624-1. Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name – The Rolls-Royce Story – The First 40 Years. Cambridge, England. Icon Books, 2000. ISBN 1-84046-151-9. Robertson, Bruce. Spitfire: The Story of a Famous Fighter. Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK: Model & Allied Publications ...