OK – so nobody’s perfect! This is the first time for nearly three years that anyone has pointed it out.

My recollection is that the page was originally entitled ‘Supermarine drawings’ but at some stage in the production of the web page the name and the link from http://www.rafmuseum.org/london/collections/archive/company_papers.cfm were changed.

The text relates to Supermarine drawings in general, rather than just the Spitfire, and the equivalent drawings for Spitfire wings are far more cluttered with copious references to part numbers, which makes them less aesthetically pleasing – whatever that means! The drawing title was left in to show that Supermarine designed other aircraft than the Spitfire.

I’ll ask our webmaster to change the offending words.

Peter Elliott
Senior Keeper
Department of Research & Information Services
Royal Air Force Museum