it was a sight to behold,
and the sound of the V-12 Merlin engine to gorgeous for mere words, it is a Spitfire, perhaps one of the most evocative planes of World War Two,
thirty years ago this Spitfire was little more than a rusting shell in a South African scrapyard, yesterday the fighter, airworthy again after years of painstaking work, fetched a record £1.78million at auction, it was bought by British adventurer Steve Brooks who plans to keep it in this country and keep it flying,
'I'm a great believer that things like this were built to be used, not to be museum pieces,' he said. 'The Spitfire is a terrific flying machine, it's also British and should stay in Britain.' British and proud of it.
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Beautiful plane indeed... the fastest WW2 plane too, if memory serves.
My personal WW2 favorite is the P-38 Lightning.
Dear Jil, I am not to good on plane speeds but you may be right for a propellor plane, but I am guessing the fastest was either the rocket plane or the ME 262 twin jet, both at the end of WW 11 and I think both by Messershmit, sorry about the spelling! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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