The Spitfire Story |
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
The Mark I in Service | 70 |
The Saga of the Speed Spitfire | 83 |
Copyright | |
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aeroplane ailerons Air Fighting Development Air Ministry aircraft was fitted airframe airscrew Appendix armament Battle of Britain camera canopy carburettor carried Castle Bromwich clipped wing cockpit contra-rotating propeller control column Director of Technical dive Eastleigh engine Farnborough feet fighter Fighting Development Unit flaps flew floatplane flown flying Focke-Wulf 190 fuel tank fuselage gallons gear Griffon high altitude high speed hood improved installation Jeffrey Quill landing later leading edge low altitude machine guns manoeuvrability Mark VIII Martlesham maximum speed Merlin 61 Mitchell modified mph faster normal nose oil cooler operational performance photograph pilot pressurised cabin production aircraft production Mark production Spitfire propeller prototype radiator rate of climb rear fuselage reconnaissance Reginald Mitchell retractable Rolls-Royce Royal Air Force rudder Service ceiling Speed Spitfire Spitfire 21 Spitfire IX Spitfire VB Spitfire XIV Squadron starboard Supermarine tail wheel take-off Technical Development trim undercarriage Vickers windscreen wing tips