Category. | Statistic. |
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First flight. | 5 March 1936. |
Retired on. | Wikipedia said Ireland was the last in 1961. By what I can gather, they served with S. Africa, NZ, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia well in to the late 1950s. A tribute program on the Discovery Channel and a UK historical web page claimed a Dutch trainer retired in the "early 1960s", and a Egyptian photo-reconnaissance retired in 1961 and a Belgian target tug retired in 1965. I Also remember seeing some scratchy old news real from Rhodesia on a BBC history show in the late 1990s and I was sure I saw one in the skies over Rhodesia. The footage was from the late 1960s! A few civil owned warbirds remain. |
Major contractor(s) | Supermarine |
Dose it use nukes or cruse missiles. | No |
Flight ceiling | 36,500 ft (11,125 m) |
Top speed. | 370 mph, (322 kn, 595 km/h) |
VTOL. | No |
Range | 991 nmi (1,135 mi, 1,827 km) |
Crew | 1 |
Nationality(s). | British |
Class. | Fighter/light ground attack/photo-reconnaissance aircraft |
Rate of climb | 2,600 ft/min (13.2 m/s) |
Links | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire |
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