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  2. Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054 - 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. [38] The aerobatic sequences featured in the last 15 minutes of the film were flown by Jeffrey Quill, an original test pilot on K5054, in early November 1941 flying a Spitfire Mk II mocked up to represent the ...

  3. 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.

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

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    K5054 was unpainted and the undercarriage had no fairings fitted and was fixed down. No weapons were fitted. The first engine was a prototype Merlin C engine of 990 hp (738 kW). After the first few flights K5054 was returned to the factory, reappearing about 10 days later with an overall gloss pale blue-grey finish. The engine cowlings had been ...

  5. Joseph Summers - Wikipedia

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    On 5 March 1936 Jeffrey Quill flew Summers in Vickers' Miles Falcon from Martlesham to Eastleigh Aerodrome, where he was to fly the new F.37/34 fighter which had the military serial number K5054. Summers - then chief test pilot for Vickers (Aviation) Ltd. - took K5054 on its first flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome. After an eight-minute flight ...

  6. Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon-powered variants) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. This Restored Spitfire Flew Missions in WWII and Starred in a ...

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  8. Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    The later Spitfire Mk 26 uses the Mk 25 wings with the fuselage increased to 80% scale to provide room for a passenger seat in tandem behind the pilot. The Mk 26B has a 90% scale fuselage. The Spitfire kit has the same power-to-weight ratio as the original. [6] The aircraft was reviewed by the Australian Ultralight Federation in 2001.

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