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  2. Supermarine Spitfire operational history - Wikipedia

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    On 24 February 1943, the first of the Rolls-Royce Griffon engined Spitfire variants, the F Mk XII was accepted into RAF service, with the first examples being delivered to 41 Squadron. The first operational flight was made on 3 April, with the Mk XII's first victory, a Junkers Ju 88 occurring two weeks later. [ 77 ]

  3. Supermarine Spitfire (early Merlin-powered variants) - Wikipedia

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    Also, in June 1938, the Heinkel He 100 V2 set a new record of 394.6 mph (635.0 km/h), which was very close to the maximum speed the as yet unflown Speed Spitfire was likely to achieve; the first flight of the modified Spitfire took place on 11 November 1938 and, in late February 1939, the maximum speed reached was 408 mph (657 km/h) at 3,000 ft ...

  4. Avia S-199 - Wikipedia

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    The first flight took place in March 1947, and production ended in 1949. ... The price for a fully equipped plane was $190,000. [3] ... Supermarine Spitfire; Yakovlev ...

  5. Supermarine Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    The First of the Few (also known as Spitfire in the US and Canada) (1942) is a British film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven playing a composite character based on the Schneider Trophy pilots of 1927, 1929 and 1931, and the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill.

  6. Supermarine Speed Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    In June 1938, still some months before N.17 would be readied for flight, Heinkel He 100 V2 raised the record again to 394.6 mph (635.0 km/h). This was very close to the anticipated maximum speed the as yet unflown Speed Spitfire. Its first flights finally took place at the hands of Mutt Summers on 11 November 1938.

  7. Joseph Summers - Wikipedia

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    A year later he became chief test pilot to the Supermarine Aviation Works (which had been taken over by Vickers in 1928) and in that capacity flew the first Supermarine Spitfire in 1936. Summers tested numerous fighters and bombers through the 1930s. He flew the prototype of Barnes Wallis's geodetic aircraft the Vickers Wellesley bomber in June ...

  8. Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance ...

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    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 ...

  9. Jeffrey Quill - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Quill's long association with the Spitfire began when, aged 23, he made his first flight in the prototype fighter K5054 on 26 March 1936 – Mutt Summers having made the maiden flight three weeks earlier – and his priority was to get the Spitfire cleared for acceptance by the RAF.