At the height of wartime production, Spitfires were being built at 6 every day.
A Spitfire was 30 ft. long.
The first Spitfire took about 5 months to build and first flew in March 1936.
The first Spitfire took about 5 months to build and first flew in March 1936.
The Spitfire made it's first flight in 1936, - that was 77 years ago.
The Spitfire was made of aluminium and duraluminium.
At cruise speeds a Spitfire could fly a little over 4 hours.
The fuselage is 30 ft long
you shove it in a tube
Only one person could fit in a Spitfire, it was very tight cockpit.
Griptape is griptape, there is no good or bad with it. But, if you get the choice buy something like mob or jessup griptape rather than spitfire as spitfire specialise in wheels and you might look a bit stupid when you say you have spitfire grip.
Nobody killed Spitfire. After a long and illustrious career of almost 15 years it reached the peak of its perfection and gave way to jets.
The Spitfire had 8 Browning Machine guns each with a 300 round magazine firing just about 1200 rpm. Full on guns a blazing would give it about 15 seconds of fire...give or take a second or two.