75 Years Ago Today...

[Bomber_12th]

..this fine-looking aeroplane flew for the first time.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/0-K5054.jpg

(Photo Copyright: The Peter Arnold Collection)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110305/tuk-spitfire-makes-anniversary-flight-6323e80.html

[bobmay]

Thanks for the reminder of the anniversary John.

I regularly pass Southampton airport where that first flight took place and I snapped this pic of the ½ scale Spitfire model at the airport gates. You might be interested if you've not seen it before.

http://www.premaircraft.com/pics/spit_soton.jpg

Bob

[SADT]

My Little tribute:

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I would say I was 20 feet above the ground; Iwas certainly level with the cntrol tower deck! :icon_eek:

Second time round, I shock-loaded the engine, which gave me the perfect oppurtunity to test out the Spit's ditching qualities......... not very good LOL!

[Allen]

http://api.ning.com/files/JME6GV2nIXpIxR2p9SZIZ6cLUK0ked-3Zp5OODA89BcjQuj-8kv0YZql16Onh73aIkVuCd48zStujxecQ1KMJy90FCXQsk19/Spitfire_F_VB_BM597.jpg (http://api.ning.com/files/JME6GV2nIXpIxR2p9SZIZ6cLUK0ked-3Zp5OODA89BcjQuj-8kv0YZql16Onh73aIkVuCd48zStujxecQ1KMJy90FCXQsk19/Spitfire_F_VB_BM597.jpg)

http://3oneseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/spitfire.jpg

http://www.aviationnews.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mk356-spitfire-mk-iia.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/SpitVbeagle.JPG

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/spit/Spitfire_002_IWM%20E23983.jpg

http://images.wikia.com/fargofilmmaking/images/1/1d/2008Spitfire.jpg

http://citizenart.com/caimages/inkworm_spitfire.jpg

Happy Spitfiring!