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Spitfire

 or Supermarine Spitfire

British fighter aircraft in World War II. A low-wing monoplane first flown in 1936, it was adopted by the RAF in 1938. At that time one of the war's fastest single-seat fighters, it was used effectively during the Battle of Britain. Later models allowed it to serve as a fighter-bomber and a photoreconnaissance plane. The 1938 version had a top speed of about 360 mph (580 kph) and was armed with eight .303-in. (7.7-mm) machine guns. The Spitfire XIV, one of the last models of the war, had a ceiling of 40,000 ft (12,200 m) and a top speed of 440 mph (710 kph). The RAF retired its last Spitfires in 1954.

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IT was in 1938 that the Minister for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, attended the opening of a huge new factory at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, built at a cost of pounds 3 million, to produce Spitfires in the face of the looming threat of war.
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WORLD War II Spitfires flew from Ainsdale for the first time in 50 years during a special service.
Spitfires take to the air again at Woodvale by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
The picture of a Spitfire I used to illustrate a recent Memories story about, er, Spitfires, was not a Huddersfield Spitfire.
THE 3 SPITFIRES NAMED HUDDERSFIELD by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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