On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:30:13 -0600, Mitchell Holman
<noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote in
>news:i6huudlcv1oms1gu74sfj14pkt0nj080si@4ax.com:
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>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:39:13 +0000, R2D2 <alfa@bravo.co> wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:51:18 -0600, Mitchell Holman
>>><noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
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>>>Looks pre-war. Is the the prototype or pre-series?
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>> It is THE Spitfire prototype, completed in 1936.
>>
>> See:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire_prototype_K5054
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> Same lines as the Supermarine Racer it
>was derived from.
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>
That race payed of SO MUCH for the UK, considering both the Spitfire
and the RR Merlin came out of the testing done on it...
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