Spitfire I Database

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Eduard 1/48 Spitfire I (late production)

by Tom Cleaver on September 12, 2020 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

By the spring of 1940, Spitfires equipped approximately one-third of the squadrons in Fighter Command. Over that summer, the pilots of the Spitfires and their more numerous comrades in the cockpits of Hawker Hurricanes successfully stopped [...]

Eduard 1/48 early Spitfire I

by Tom Cleaver on August 14, 2020 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

Airfix 1/48 Spitfire I – the first successful Spitfire in combat

by Tom Cleaver on July 5, 2019 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

The first Spitfire is immortal as “the plane that saved Britain” (even if Britain was really saved by the Hurricane) in the Battle of Britain. A delicate blend of aerodynamic excellence, the Spitfire I almost wasn’t there to do its [...]