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▶The Supermarine Spitfire Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:41:18 No.824732>>824750 >>824767 >>824788 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the finest bits of British, or indeed general, aeronautical engineering in the history of flight.

It won the war against the Hun and Il Duce and kept Britain's skies free and safe for a decade and then the skies of many a nation well into the '50s.

There is, however, one thing that eludes me. A particular quote about the machine itself. I remember one of the lines contained a phrase like "we made a bird with wings of steel" or "a bird made of steel". I cannot, bloody, find it and it's driving me crazy.

Could I get some help with that?

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:47:32 No.824741>>824744

My non blood related uncle was in the US airforce during WWII and he raved about the Spitfires. He said it was superior to anything the US had at the time. He died over a decade ago or I would ask him.

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:52:30 No.824744

>>824741

To be sure, the P-51D was an excellent aircraft in and of itself and you'd struggle to find a proper match for it in the mono-prop category.

That quote's bugging me like crazy though.

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:53:31 No.824746

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In the mean time, I wouldn't mind an old WW2 prop-fighter thread.

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:58:05 No.824750>>824751 >>824758

>>824732 (OP)

Didn't lack fuel injection, causing the engine to stall during dives?

Seems like a bad design to me.

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 04:58:27 No.824751

>>824750

Didn't it*

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 05:13:49 No.824758

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>>824750

The carburetor engine was pretty much standard at the time with very few airplanes(most notably the Me Bf 109) using fuel-injection engines.

That said, the Spitfire had an excellent engine in spite of that - one that after a small fix had considerably less trouble with negative G maneuvers.

Also, the Spitfire could dive...it just had to do it backwards(with the belly facing skywards).

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 05:35:52 No.824767

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>>824732 (OP)

>It won the war against the Hun and Il Duce and kept Britain's skies free and safe

Thanks!

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 06:37:49 No.824788

>>824732 (OP)

Although /k/ would probably be best for this kind of question, this is a nice break from the norm.

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 18:51:15 No.825063>>825073

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>blocks your path

▶Anonymous 11/20/17 (Mon) 19:03:12 No.825073

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>>825063

I'd thank god, because it wasn't one of these.

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