3 - Spitfire
Issue 3 - Supermarine Spitfire: Contents
26 March 2010
Birth of a legend... P7’s new colours... Spitfire test pilot... Shuttleworth’s ‘missing’ gem... Historic Aircraft Flight... BBMF’s newest recruit... Goodwood’s Spitfire years... Spitfire ‘sky spies’... Alone and unarmed... Spitfire metamorphosis... Kiwi tribute...
Issue 3 - Supermarine Spitfire: Editors Introduction
25 March 2010.
“I have often wondered who the genius was who christened it Spitfire. It was a name that resounded round the free world in those dark days of Hitler’s tyranny, and perfectly symbolized the mood of Britain’s defence.”
Issue 3 - Supermarine Spitfire: Kiwi tribute
24 March 2010.
A special preview feature from Aviation Classics - The Supermarine Spitfire - Brendon Deere’s Spitfire IX PV270 has been restored in honour of his uncle, Air Cdr Alan Deere. Jarrod Cotter caught up with Brendon at RNZAF Ohakea where the aircraft is based.
Current Issue: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
On January 27, 1939, Lockheed test pilot Ben Kelsey took the prototype XP-38 Lightning into the air for the first time. The big, twin-engined, twin-boomed fighter was to become one of the most easily identifiable fighters of the Second World War, and was to be the only US fighter aircraft to remain in production throughout the conflict. Its unusual design had a number of advantages. The guns, being grouped close together in the nose, gave the P-38 a tremendous concentration of firepower. The tricycle undercarriage made ground handling simple when compared with the tailwheel designs common to the period. The P-38 was used across the world, undertaking long range fighter escort, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance missions in Europe as well as across the Pacific and Far East.
This issue of Aviation Classics tells the whole story of this ground breaking aircraft, as well as the people behind the development and operational success of this beautiful machine.
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• Next issue on sale: 30th March 2012
