Aviation artist Darryl Legg, supports the Spitfire Project We are privileged to have a new artist supporting our project – the incredibly talented aviation artist Darryl Legg. Darryl has offered us the right to print copies of his painting of Spitfire 5518, an incredibly detailed painting of our Spitty, which we are restoring. He has …
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The graceful and majestic yet potent Supermarine Spitfire, designed by Reginald J. Mitchell, first flew on March 5th, 1936 and become operational in August 1938. Nineteen different Marks and 52 variations of Spitfire’s were produced between 1936 and 1948, totalling 22,759 (of which 2,408 were Seafires). The Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX, otherwise known as type …
Article by Phil Scallan. The Spitfire Mk XVI and why was SAAF 5518/TE213, an MK IX HFIX, often mistaken for one? The late production MK IX Spitfires are externally very similar to the MK XVI Spitfire. Still, those late production MK IX’s fitted with the Merlin266 built by the US Packard Motor Company were designated …
Article written by Keith Pratt outlining the reason for his interest in the Spitfire. My grandfather was a WW1 war hero (twice decorated). He died in 1937 before WWII whilst injecting himself with “Opium”, his long term treatment for pain relief due to mustard gas poisoning. This left Grannie seven children and when I add …
Swartkop Airshow, 15 April 2000, aviation fans abound and two Supermarine Spitfires are going through their paces in line astern formation.
Jann Knobel donated the baby Spitfire built by the late Peter Knobel to the Spitfire Restoration Project.
Ben Jonkers, an artist from Hillcrest in Kwazulu Natal, donated a painting of Spitfire 5518 AX-K to the project.
Scattering ashes from a Supermarine Spitfire – A fitting tribute By Maj James Feuilherade In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return’ Genesis 3:19 This is a story, of one of …
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what’s it like to fly the Spitfire MkIX? By Maj James Feuilherade Here are my thoughts on flying the Spitfire MkIX of the South African Air Force Museum historic flight when posted to the SAAF Museum in 1999. The South African Air Force Museum’s example was a Spitfire Mk IX LF or otherwise called the …
New Spitfire Restoration hangar celebrated at roof wetting event.
