Andy Mac
November 24, 2005 at 9:13 pm

Spitfire glide distance

Can anyone confirm that a Spitfire was/is able to glide (on a dead engine), if I remember correctly, 1000 feet per half mile . . .or something like this ?

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By: HP57 - 25th November 2005 at 18:16

Spitfire 21 LA226 formerly at South Marston (and now in storage) used to suffer an engine failure and glided a very large distance back to base. Must be in an old FP-issue iirc, or Mark should know.

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By: Andy Mac - 25th November 2005 at 13:16

Cheers Ian.

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By: EN830 - 24th November 2005 at 22:31

Alex Henshaw did it on many an occasion, I’ve also read about pilots gliding back to the UK from France, given enough height.