Spitfire celebrates 70th anniversary

[+allenjb42]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7540305.stm

 

Edited August 4, 2008 by allenjb42

[+Baltika]

Happy Birthday Spitfire

[MAKO69]

Just poped the top off a wobly pop, cheers to a special lady on her 70th.

[kukulino]

Love this ellegant legend

[Alexander51]

Holy canoly! Happy birthday to the Supermarine

dream :drinks_drunk:

[+MigBuster]

Just saw this on the bbc site too - great stuff

[New Guy]

To all Spitfire, happy birthday. Cheers!

[Mannie]

Happy birthday Spitfire.

The REAL first Israeli air force fighter.

[kesegy]

cheers spitfire and happy birthday.

 

hopefully someday in the future we'll see a new bird bearing this honored name.

 

[Erwin_Hans]

Spitfire,happy birthday!

[Erwin_Hans]

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"?

[kesegy]

yep. if the f-35 article on wikipedia is to be trusted 

[+Gocad]

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.

[Nesher]

congrats to the spit! a sight for sore eyes

<S>

 

btw, the one in the IAF museum is absolutly beautiful!#!

[kukulino]

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?

[+BUFF]

Got myself a copy of The First of the Few this week :)

 

A Spit is truly a thing of visual & aural beauty.

[Mannie]

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

[kukulino]

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

[Mannie]

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

[kukulino]

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

[Mannie]

 

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. )

[+Brain32]

UGH, I use to like the Spitfire, now I can stand a freakin look at it...

 

HB anyway, it's not the planes fault

[Longestpants]

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest warbirds ever made.

[+allenjb42]

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.