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Jeffrey Quill. Birth of a legend. The Spitfire.
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Jeffrey Quill in this book does not recount the history of the Spitfire nor does he detail the operations in which it took part — although as its chief test pilot few could be more qualified to do so. Rather, as the title suggests, he tells of the events leading up to its dramatic and triumphant birth, and of the precarious first years of survival and growth.
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The achievements of the ?ghter pilots ensured that the Spit?re became a legend in its own time. No other aircraft has ever enjoyed quite the same charisma nor engendered the same sense of excitement that the Spit?re still evokes in both young and old. It was, of course, in 1940 that the people of Britain took the Spit?re — so easily recognisable in the air by sight and sound - very much to their hearts. Then, together with its comrade in arms, the Hurricane, it brought the sweet taste of victory into their homes - but only after a series of military set-backs and disasters. Victory in the Battle of Britain was a great feat of arms achieved both by Royal Air Force Fighter Command and by British engineering and industrial organisation. It was a victory to which the British people could rightly feel they had contributed. Jeffrey Quill, the spitfire's chief test pilot, tells of the events leading up to the spitfire's dramatic and triumphant birth, and of the precarious ?rst years of survival and growth. Despite the almost miraculous timing of its conception and of its ?rst flight on March 5. 1936, there were many obstacles which had to be surmounted before R. J. Mitchell’s masterpiece could achieve full potential as a ?ghter. There was the gearing up of the quite exceptionally successful production lines enabling 22,759 Spit?res and Sea?res to be built and kept in the air; there was the remarkable program of technical development which kept the Spit?re in the front line of the battle from the ?rst to the last day of the 1939-45 War; and there was the massive and vital contribution of the hitherto largely unsung heroes in Supermarine, Vickers, Rolls- Royce and countless small sub-contractors that enabled it all to happen.
Jeffrey Quill in this book does not recount the history of the Spitfire nor does he detail the operations in which it took part — although as its chief test pilot few could be more qualified to do so. Rather, as the title suggests, he tells of the events leading up to its dramatic and triumphant birth, and of the precarious first years of survival and growth.
https://aviation.brussels/products/birth-of-a-legend-the-spitfire-2
The achievements of the ?ghter pilots ensured that the Spit?re became a legend in its own time. No other aircraft has ever enjoyed quite the same charisma nor engendered the same sense of excitement that the Spit?re still evokes in both young and old. It was, of course, in 1940 that the people of Britain took the Spit?re — so easily recognisable in the air by sight and sound - very much to their hearts. Then, together with its comrade in arms, the Hurricane, it brought the sweet taste of victory into their homes - but only after a series of military set-backs and disasters. Victory in the Battle of Britain was a great feat of arms achieved both by Royal Air Force Fighter Command and by British engineering and industrial organisation. It was a victory to which the British people could rightly feel they had contributed. Jeffrey Quill, the spitfire's chief test pilot, tells of the events leading up to the spitfire's dramatic and triumphant birth, and of the precarious ?rst years of survival and growth. Despite the almost miraculous timing of its conception and of its ?rst flight on March 5. 1936, there were many obstacles which had to be surmounted before R. J. Mitchell’s masterpiece could achieve full potential as a ?ghter. There was the gearing up of the quite exceptionally successful production lines enabling 22,759 Spit?res and Sea?res to be built and kept in the air; there was the remarkable program of technical development which kept the Spit?re in the front line of the battle from the ?rst to the last day of the 1939-45 War; and there was the massive and vital contribution of the hitherto largely unsung heroes in Supermarine, Vickers, Rolls- Royce and countless small sub-contractors that enabled it all to happen.
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