Spitfire

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• Flying high

  Spitfire: The Biography by Jonathan Glancey 320pp, Atlantic, £17.99 Timing is everything. If the Spitfire had reached the RAF in, say, 1937 instead of 1938, the Luftwaffe might have observed it, poached its design, maybe even acquired a couple. (In 1 ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The bonniest fighter of them all

  This year is the 70th anniversary of the first flight at Southamp- ton of K5054, the prototype Supermarine Spitfire. It would never have entered the head of its designer R.J. Mitchell, aged 42 and dying of cancer, that his brainchild (‘a mere fabrica ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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• English Books
• Paperback 356 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1843545284
• ISBN-13: 9781843545286
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Pub date: May 10, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover

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