Archive for March, 2011
Added during 2011
2011-03-30
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) – B.88 near the town of Heesch, in Noord-Brabant, the southern part of Holland, was the 88th airfield on the ...
2011-03-25
Farewell to Gordon Neill, a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War, and news about the fate of Point Cook's Spitfire in Australia
2011-03-23
Here is one of those wartime photographs which at first glance raise more questions than answers. What we have here is a very anonymous photo-reconnaissance Spitfire, unidentified machine of an unidentified unit...
2011-03-18
The top news of this week is farewell to No. 111 Squadron at RAF Leuchars, which gets disbanded after 94 years of service with ...
2011-03-17
An entire complement of Spitfires Mk. IXC of No. 485 (New Zealand) Squadron lined up at the USAAF Station 112 Bovingdon in Hertfordshire on 30 March 1944
2011-03-16
David Whyman is one of UK’s leading glass engraving artists. His speciality is country and wildlife scenes, but he has also a vast array ...
2011-03-14
‘It’s scintillatingly exciting’: Britain’s only female Spitfire pilot on her … – Daily Mail ‘It’s scintillatingly exciting’: Britain’s only female Spitfire pilot on her ...
2011-03-11
Our reader Paul Ryan has recently bought this original oil painting from a shop in Salisbury. The painting, approx 30×39″ in size, depicts a ...
2011-03-11
Here is a review of recent press articles which mention the Spitfire, its past and present, related people and events. In particular, many of ...
2011-03-07
Last weekend marked the 75th Anniversary of the Spitfire. On 5 March 1936, the yet unnamed prototype of Mitchell’s elegant new fighter took off ...
