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What a neat aircraft.
My fav.I always had a thing for them ever since our family friend told us stories about his escapades flying them in France, when we were 8 year old kids.
Absolutely gorgeous aircraft,they even smelled good.A mix of oil , cosmoline, fuel, canvas, rubber and cordite.MAny from my family’s neck of the woods flew in the Battle of Britain or served as ground crew.
They were young,foolish at times, and used to do wicked things not reported in the history books, like emptying their ammo trays and filling them with lobster to fly back to their mess halls.
I was watching a Chezck documentary a bit ago, and the guy put forward the theory that one of the reasons why the Spitfire has such a place in hearts and minds is that the 12 cylinder merlin engine was harmonized to a major key (I suspect not deliberately, just a happy coincidence) and that just ...touches... people on some subconscious level. He said hearing it gave the same kind of feeling as attending a mass.