Nothing compares to hearing a Merlin engine come alive, and this Mk IX Spitfire proved it. Filmed at Kemble’s Cotswold Airport, the cold start turns from sputtering coughs into a full-throated roar ...
Spitfire - The plane that every pilot dreams of flying is taking to the simulated skies in a package worthy of the most beautiful aircraft ever built. Spitfire is on its way and will be landing on 4th ...
Without question, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is one of the greatest piston pushers ever made. The 27-liter V12 was built in the 1930s and 1940s and would eventually go on to power allied fighter ...
On 5 March 1936, a pale blue prototype bearing the serial K5054 lifted gracefully from the grass at Eastleigh Aerodrome. In the cockpit was test pilot Captain Joseph “Mutt” Summers, who, after a short ...