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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.
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Converting to the Spitfire IX in October 1943 it then became a fighter-bomber squadron. [2] Within two weeks of the D-Day it was operating from France in the close-support role and it also operated armed reconnaissance flights. [2] Following the advancing troops the squadron was soon based in Germany until it was disbanded at Utersen on 21 ...
The Hamlyn Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. London: Bounty Books. ISBN 0-7537-1460-4. Munson, Kenneth (1983). Fighters and Bombers of World War II. London: Peerage Books. ISBN 0-907408-37-0. Smith, J. Richard; Kay, Anthony L. (2002). German Aircraft of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750 ...
No. 680 Squadron RAF was formed in February 1943 from 'A' Flight of No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU), [6] equipped with a variety of aircraft including Supermarine Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes, Bristol Beaufighters and Lockheed Electras.
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. [187] RW382 was repainted in 2020 as a Spitfire (WZ-RR) from 309th Fighter Squadron USAAF flown by Lieutenant Robert Conner in Italy 1944.
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 ...