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Det som sedermera kom att bli biltillverkaren Subaru var från början ett företag som under mellankrigstiden hade utvecklats till Japans största flygplanstillverkare, Nakajima Aircraft
wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Aircraft_Company
How the Spitfire was very nearly named the Shrew (Näbbmus)
if the man credited with inventing the Spitfire had had his way.
It was Robert McLean, head of Vickers Aviation, who preferred the name Spitfire because it
was a name he used for his daughter Annie, describing her as “a little spitfire”
The Times, 15 June 2015
Reginald Mitchell, known as R J Mitchell, favoured the mole-like mammal to the name finally chosen by the aerospace company Supermarine for the fighter aircraft that has come to symbolise Britain’s brilliance in its darkest hour.
Paul Beaver, author of Spitfire People, noted that the name was imposed on the plane despite the objections of Mitchell, who described Spitfire as “just the sort of bloody silly name they would give it”.
Målet är att få ned inköpskostnaden för varje enskilt plan till under 80 miljoner dollar (540 miljoner kronor),
från nuvarande drygt 90 miljoner dollar.
A P-38 Squadron shot down Admiral Yamamoto in an incredible long distance interception in the Pacific
10 Things You Never Knew About The P-38 Lightning??
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Ten of the best fighters of WWII
warhistoryonline.com
Markets appear to be acting on the firm belief that Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble is lying to lawmakers
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, September 28th, 2011
Very Important Article
Links to nice pictures of Aeroplanes on web-sites, in books and magazines
Eurofighter
Welcome to the official RAF Website
September 09, 2010
USAF - B-52 and other aircrafts,
Spitfire FlyPast Special, Published February 1996 by Key Publishing Ltd, PO Box 100, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 1XQ, phone 01780 55 131 fax 01780 57 261 . Distributed by United Magazine Distribution, 16-28 Tabernacle Street, London EC 2A 4BN, phone 0171 638 4666 fax 0171 638 4665.
Nice pic of
Spitfire