2010 September

Spitfire Site

Archive for September, 2010

Added during 2010

2010-09-30

Aviation nut Barry Wallond from Cornwall has so far built two 1/1 scale Spitfire replicas - alone.

2010-09-30

Greetings from Poland. Here is my Spitfire Mk. IIa, RF-W serial P8038, from No. 303 (Polish) Squadron. This aircraft was flown by pilots Kolaczkowski ...

2010-09-29

This evocative Battle of Britain combat scene has been created by Czech aviation artist Vladimir Urbanek. Entitled “First and Fastest Victory”, the painting captures ...

2010-09-29

Another Battle of Britain moment is captured in this drawing by Pavel Rampír. This time the subject is a brief but definitive encounter between ...

2010-09-28

Our visitor Phil from New Zealand sent us the photo this aircraft relic. The item is a small access hatch of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. ...

2010-09-24

17 September 1940 On 17 September, following the decisive air battle over London and the South of England two days previously, Hitler summoned a ...

2010-09-17

Following the latest issue on English Electric Lightning, issue 6 of the ‘Aviation Classics’ series is a special 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain edition

2010-09-16

15 September 1940. The weather was fine over south-eastern England on 15 September – commemorated annually ever since as the Battle of Britain Day.

2010-09-15

Describing the events of 15 September 1940, this letter by Sergeant Pilot G. D. Bushell of No. 213 Squadron, RAF provides a first-hand account of the grand air battle of that day.

2010-09-14

7 September 1940. The London Blitz began in the afternoon of 7 September with the first mass daylight air raid on the docks area.