606 mph (975 km/h)
606 mph
409mph
The top speed of a British Spitfire is three hundred and sixty miles per hour. The Spitfire can reach an altitude of thirty six thousand feet.
The Mk 1 Spitfire could do 365 mph. at 18,000 feet.
The Spitfire is from WW2 .
The top speed of the MkIX was about 420 mph. This version had a 1,720 hp Merlin 66.
About 20,000 American spitfire pilots died in WW2.
The Spitfire was used widely in WW2 and later in the first Arab/Israeli war.
The Spitfire was first used in late 1938. By the start of WW2 in 1939 the RAF had 400 in service
Spitfires at the end of the war could fly about 440 mph.
Indeed there was such a plane as a Spitfire during WW2. It was one of the UK's main fighters.
Messerschmitts fought Spitfires all through WW2.