* 1958 – Pete Wylie, British singer-songwriter ( Crucial Three and The Spitfire Boys )

The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single (" British Refugee " c / w " Mein Kampf ").

The band was formed shortly afterwards by Littler as guitarist, alongside his friends, bassist Peter Griffiths and lead vocalist Michael Rigby, and Steve Platt a drummer, A short time later, while preparing for the gig, the band changed their name to The Spitfire Boys as a suggestion of Wayne County.

After Littler disbanded the short-lived Photons, he moved to Cardiff, Wales, in October 1978, where he formed a band, The White Boys, but changed their name to The Spitfire Boys, as pressure by a financer of the band, who thought the name would sell better.

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In January 1978, Budgie ( previously in The Spitfire Boys and later member of Siouxsie and the Banshees ) replaced Allen on drums, and in early June, Johnson was sacked and got replaced by ex-Deaf School Steve Lindsey, who was replaced in July by Dave Balfe ( previously in Dalek I Love You ), the last member who joined.

The letters used to designate a fighter differ in various countries — in the English speaking world, " F " is now used to indicate a fighter ( e. g. F-35 or Spitfire F. 22 ), though when the pursuit designation was used in the US, they were " P " types ( e. g. P-40 ).

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

The earlier Hawker Hurricane and the Spitfire were the mainstay of RAF Fighter Command fighter aircraft which fought off the Luftwaffe bombing raids with fighter escorts during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.

Other well-known planes from World War II were the Seafire ( a naval version of the Spitfire ).

Many of the technical advances in the Spitfire had been made by others: the thin elliptical wings were designed by the Canadian aerodynamicist, Beverley Shenstone, and shared some similarities with the Heinkel He 70 Blitz ; the under-wing radiators had been designed by the RAE, while monocoque construction had been first developed in the United States.

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

There were occasional successes, but nothing that was noticed by the computer game industry as a whole until relatively late in its life with such titles as Achtung Spitfire !.

* Naval versions of aircraft not originally ordered for the Fleet Air Arm were given the prefix " Sea "-Sea Hurricane, Sea Venom-though Seafire for the navalised Supermarine Spitfire as a contraction of " Sea Spitfire ".

Most of the aircraft that operated in the command were the Second World War types ; the Spitfire, Lancaster, Mosquito and Beaufighter.

Examples of planes that were classified as day fighters were the Supermarine Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109.

The RAF demonstrated the importance of speed and maneuverability in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ), when its fast Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighters easily riddled the clumsy Stukas as they were pulling out of dives.

Many vehicles were also set on fire and the yellow smoke used for signalling friendlies was ignored by Spitfire pilots.

Two air regiments were equipped with Spitfire Mk.

A Spitfire Mk II ( Dinky Toys 719 ) in 1 / 65 scale and Junkers Ju 87B Stuka ( Dinky Toys 721 ) in 1 / 72 scale were released in special boxes with Battle of Britain logo on the box and photographs from the film included.

The actual result was the destruction of one Spitfire, the other two were damaged in force landings with both pilots wounded.

As well as a training base Montrose was also an operational airfield for Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire squadrons, which flew sorties over Norway and were a part of the air defences for Edinburgh.

Three squadrons were represented in Siam during the occupation, No. 20 Squadron RAF with Spitfire VIII aircraft, No. 211 Squadron RAF with de Havilland Mosquito VI aircraft, and a detachment of No. 685 Squadron RAF with Mosquito photo-reconnaissance aircraft.

Spitfire IIs and Vbs were operated by these units.

Many types of aircraft were flown from the airfield, including Spitfire, Mosquito, Corsair, Vengeance, Hellcat, Dakota and Halifax aircraft, plus Horsa and Hadrian gliders.

For the special episode, a cardboard Spitfire called " Jet 1000 " was used, which had its categories listed on a series of bombs coming out from it on pieces of string ( referred to by Bob as its " payload "), while the others were written on the wings.

These squadrons were the 13th Light Bombing Squadron, with Avro Ansons, Bristol Blenheims and Martin Baltimores, and the 335 and 336 Fighting Squadrons, with Hawker Hurricane I and IIs and Spitfire V types.

RAF Rochford was a satellite station for RAF Hornchurch and was primarily a fighter base, home mainly to Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane aircraft.

The museum's aircraft collection includes aircraft that are notable for their rarity, such as the only complete and original Royal Aircraft Factory R. E. 8 in existence and one of only two surviving TSR-2 strike aircraft, and aircraft associated with particular actions, such as a Supermarine Spitfire flown during the Battle of Britain.

It is notable for having been the site of numerous Spitfire crashes in the Second World War.

This Supermarine Spitfire | Supermarine Spitfire XVI was typical of World War II fighters optimized for high level speeds and good climb rates

Producers realized after filming that the story needed another action scene, and reassembled some of the cast for a Spitfire attack scene that was inserted into the first third of the film.

Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that became famous for producing a range of sea planes and the Supermarine Spitfire fighter.

* Supermarine Spiteful ( 1944 ) – replacement for the Spitfire

* Supermarine Type 305 ( 1938 ) – design project for a turret armed derivative of the Spitfire

* Supermarine Type 324 – design project for a twin Merlin engined, tricycle undercarriage fighter based on Spitfire wing and fuselage.

Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, ( 20 May 1895-11 June 1937 ) was a British aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.

However, he is best remembered for his work on a series of racing aircraft, which culminated in the Supermarine S. 6B, and the famous Supermarine Spitfire fighter.

The first prototype Spitfire, serial K5054, flew for the first time on 5 March 1936 at Eastleigh, Hampshire.

Mitchell was succeeded as Chief Designer at Supermarine by Joseph Smith, who was responsible for the further development of the Spitfire.

The UK also supplied extensive material assistance to US forces stationed in Europe, for example the USAAF was supplied with hundreds of Spitfire Mk V and Mk VIII fighter aircraft.

Guy de la Bédoyère has often been present for Roman digs, as well as those involving the Second World War such as D-Day and aircraft ( such as the Spitfire ).

Following the station's closure, the replica No. 33 Squadron Supermarine Spitfire gate guardian was removed from the main entrance for restoration work and moved to the entrance of the Operations Room ( now known as the Battle of Britain Bunker ).

* The lyrics are alluded to in a 2003 advertisement for Spitfire Beer ( the ' Bottle of Britain '), an English Ale.

Ricardo and Tizard eventually realized that the Crecy would never get the development attention it deserved unless it was specified for installation in a particular aircraft but by 1945, their " Spitfire on steroids " concept of a rapidly climbing interceptor powered by the lightweight Crecy engine had become an aircraft without a purpose.