The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave the British a decisive advantage fighting the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.
The Spitfire should be the obvious answer to that ... and presumably you could say the same thing about ubiquity. The plane also earned bragging rights via the respect bestowed upon it by its ...
The Spitfire, a Mark IX built in February 1944 and given the military serial number MK356, was flown operationally on D-Day. It was fitted with a 27-litre Rolls-Royce Merlin 66 engine, rated at ...