SPITFIRE 3
4. NEW BRITISH FIGHTER PLANE OF GREAT SPEED & ARMAMENT. AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY IMPRESSED By Telegraph—Brass Association—Copyright ’ (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m > LONDON. January 20 The “Daily Mail" reveals that the R.A.F’s. super-fighter for the expected spring air battles will be the Spitfire 3. The newspaper adds that this air■raf’_ which is a remarkable (ievelopnent on the original Spitfire and Huricane. will lead the British team of ighters, including re-engmed and re>rrned Hurricanes ami also Tornados A’hn’winds ami improved Defiant.lefi.re the Spitfire 3 went into j’S’idm - - ion some months ago. it astonished nembers of the aircraft industry with ts . mazing speed at heights which .. ■ear ago were considered impossible ts top fa;- exceeds -mu riuh-.s an lour ;.nd its armament of wmm ■ - ami nachme-guns makes it wen more ieadly than the earh'-r Spittire It has ■llpj'od wings rind appears to be al! 'tlgme The power is generated bv . Udl’-IL Merlin engine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 6
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151SPITFIRE 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 6
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