R.J. Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire, and the Dying Designer Who Drew the Elliptical Wing While the Clock Ran Out
How a dying R.J. Mitchell designed the Supermarine Spitfire's elliptical wing and died in 1937, before it saved Britain.
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The Hardest Day, August Eighteenth, Nineteen Forty, and the Battle of Britain's Bloodiest Afternoon Over Kent
On August 18, 1940 - the Battle of Britain's 'Hardest Day' - the RAF and Luftwaffe suffered their heaviest single-day losses over Kent.
TaildraggerThe Schneider Trophy and the seaplane races that gave birth to the Spitfire
How the Schneider Trophy seaplane races of the 1920s and 1930s directly produced the Spitfire and its Merlin engine.
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