Saturday, September 25, 2021

Peter Arnold, a world renowned Spitfire historian, takes on the occasional refurbishment project. What started out with him popping in daily to visit the film set of Battle of Britain in the late 1960s has led to him seeing all but one of the Spitfires currently in existence.

 

https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/09/12/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-cxcxvi/

https://www.key.aero/article/peter-arnold-mr-spitfire

I see the bottom photo has been photoshopped, maybe to remove the magazine spine crease

2 comments:

  1. Looks like Mk XVIII powered by Rolls-Royce Griffon with five blade propeller. Mighty warbird.

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  2. The double image is done for perfect binding in print, where the spine is squared off in magazine production. It makes the image line up correctly once trimmed off.

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