Anyone here who is a fan of an obscure aircraft called the ‘Spitfire’ might be interested in this announcement of a long awaited book from Air Britain:
GIFTS OF WAR – Spitfires and other Presentation Aircraft in Two World Wars
I am a member of Air Britain, and was emailed about this today… But I know this may be of interest to others….
BTW If anyone was wondering what ‘As previewed in the Daily Telegraph’ means….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/09/16/dt1601.xml
By: Geoff K - 22nd October 2005 at 09:46
Did quite a bit of research for this at Kew a few years back, and helped with info re 131 (County of Kent) Sqn whose Spitfires were all presented by the county, including ‘BEXLEY’ AD554/NX-Q, presented by the borough where I live. Must get in touch with ‘en re the free copy I was promised!
Geoff.
By: JDK - 21st October 2005 at 23:55
Even I, highly trained in the art of newspaper disambiguation, admit to being stumped by that.
Probably the S-6B :rolleyes:
By: Moggy C - 21st October 2005 at 14:58
Now you’ve discovered the secret of the XISZ they’ll have to kill you 😮
What did they mean?
Moggy
By: JDK - 21st October 2005 at 14:16
Interesting.
From the original article: Glad to see the Torygraph have discovered another mark of Spitfire:
The fastest version built was the XISZ, a reconnaissance model, which had a speed of almost 460 mph.
:rolleyes:
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October 21, 2005 at 1:48 pm