Achtung! Spitfire 80 years on.

[Elem]

Today sees the 80th anniversary of one of the worlds greatest aircraft. Salute to R.J. Mitchell and the Supermarine team.

 

http://www.k5054.com/

Edited March 5, 2016 by Elem

[LLv24_Zami]

HBD Spitfire!

 

Great plane

[Dakpilot]

Release commemorative  Mk V and Mk IX lend lease version special pack to celebrate this event!!   ..... 

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Wulf]

Yes, 'all hail' the Spitfire XIV (and all the Spitfires that went before and after her) the finest fighter aircraft of the 2nd World War. 

[ACG_KaiLae]

Doubt we will get a spitfire in BOS/BOM (pretty soon we'll need a concise name for it or the abbreviations will get ridiculous), but CLoD will have the spitfire V sometime later this year

[Feathered_IV]

Happy birthday Spitfire!  80 years and you can still walk around one all day and not find an angle where it doesn't look beautiful.

[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

Love every Merlin Spitfire. Absolutely amazing aircraft. 

[SCG_Neun]

One of my favorite of all airplanes.....

[Goanna1]

Happy birthday Spitfire!  80 years and you can still walk around one all day and not find an angle where it doesn't look beautiful.

 

Aesthetically- both visually and audibly brilliant

Icon for a nation under duress at its first major appearance.

[Falco_Peregrinus]

spectacular airplane... and the griffon engined specimen are so sexy

[-TBC-AeroAce]

AnD Michel never saw it. Canncer is a bitch

[ITAF_Rani]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Finlay_Maclaren#Spitfire_undercarriage

 

The ing. Maclaren inventor of the retractile Spitfire undercarriage was also the inventor of "buggy" baby chear.He was inspired by own work on the Spitfire gear

Edited March 9, 2016 by ITAF_Rani

[TheDog]

It's the Dream plane of any childhood....I believe.