+allenjb42 4,234 Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7540305.stm Edited August 4, 2008 by allenjb42 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Baltika 85 Posted August 4, 2008 Happy Birthday Spitfire Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MAKO69 186 Posted August 4, 2008 Just poped the top off a wobly pop, cheers to a special lady on her 70th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kukulino 1 Posted August 4, 2008 Love this ellegant legend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander51 3 Posted August 4, 2008 Holy canoly! Happy birthday to the Supermarine dream :drinks_drunk: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MigBuster 2,884 Posted August 4, 2008 Just saw this on the bbc site too - great stuff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
New Guy 1 Posted August 4, 2008 To all Spitfire, happy birthday. Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mannie 21 Posted August 4, 2008 Happy birthday Spitfire. The REAL first Israeli air force fighter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kesegy 5 Posted August 4, 2008 cheers spitfire and happy birthday. hopefully someday in the future we'll see a new bird bearing this honored name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erwin_Hans 6 Posted August 4, 2008 Spitfire,happy birthday! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erwin_Hans 6 Posted August 4, 2008 cheers spitfire and happy birthday. hopefully someday in the future we'll see a new bird bearing this honored name. It seems....did RAF wish give F-35 a name called "Spitfire II"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kesegy 5 Posted August 4, 2008 yep. if the f-35 article on wikipedia is to be trusted Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Gocad 26 Posted August 4, 2008 Happy B-day, Spitfire! May you keep flying for another 70 years. :yes: I do not think that another aircraft should be named Spitfire...ever. There is simply no need since there are still plenty original Spits around. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 628 Posted August 4, 2008 congrats to the spit! a sight for sore eyes <S> btw, the one in the IAF museum is absolutly beautiful!#! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kukulino 1 Posted August 4, 2008 congrats to the spit! a sight for sore eyes <S> btw, the one in the IAF museum is absolutly beautiful!#! Can you post pic, please? Isn't that one from Czechoslovakia? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUFF 8 Posted August 4, 2008 Got myself a copy of The First of the Few this week :) A Spit is truly a thing of visual & aural beauty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mannie 21 Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) KUKULINO. these are for you. sorry about the small size. As far as I know, they came from Czechoslovakia in operation "Velvet". The black spit was the one flown by the late chief of the IAF and later the president of Israel Eizer Waisman. Cheers. Edited August 4, 2008 by Mannie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kukulino 1 Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) Thank you Mannie Spitfire is nice on smaller pictures too Yes, famous Black Spitfire. We sold Mk-IXE version to Israel and our pilots flews Avias S-199 than Eizer Waisman trained on S-199 in Czechoslovakia too. S-199 were first fighters delivered into Israel from CSSR, as we know. But there were another Spitfires delivered to Israel from another countries too. Edited August 4, 2008 by kukulino Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mannie 21 Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) But there were another Spitfires delivered to Israel from another countries too. I really don't know about it. (shame on me!) Will have to look at some history and find out about it. About the S-199, I think all in all there where four of them, but I can't be sure about the numbers. Anyway they where only few of them. Edited August 4, 2008 by Mannie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kukulino 1 Posted August 4, 2008 Maybe I mix up my Czechoslovak Spitfire knowledge with some Mustangs delivered into Israel from Sweden. So my mystake maybe Anyway, one of the nicest planes ever made. BTW: is somewhere hi poly 3D model as WIP? It is extremly hard plane for modders I suppose Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mannie 21 Posted August 4, 2008 For me, any of them is impossible to make. I think, to be a moder is a gift of god. (it looks like science fiction to me. ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Brain32 265 Posted August 4, 2008 UGH, I use to like the Spitfire, now I can stand a freakin look at it... HB anyway, it's not the planes fault Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Longestpants 1 Posted August 4, 2008 Happy Birthday to one of the greatest warbirds ever made. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+allenjb42 4,234 Posted August 4, 2008 It seems....did RAF wish give F-35 a name called "Spitfire II"? I always thought that they should have named the Eurofighter 2000 'Spitfire', instead of Typhoon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
