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Spitfire Sunset by Barry Price. Signed limited edition of 850 prints. Image szie 16 inches x 24 inches (41cm x 61cm). Price £80.00 ITEM CODE LE0010 Related Items and Offers: Click Images for Details Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. (PC) Item Price : £2 Dambusters by Anthony Saunders. Item Price : £85

Ready to purchase from our secure site? Click the editions below. Signed limited edition of 250 prints. Special Promotion - This item is HALF PRICE! £36.00 Dundas Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double mounted.   £180.00 Page Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double matted.   £190.00 Brothers Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double matted.   £180.00

The Thouroughbred by Ivan Berryman. Allied fighters encountering Focke-Wulfs potent Fw190 were to find themselves alarmingly outclassed when first the Luftwaffes new fighter appeared in the skies above France in 1941. Even the Spitfire MkV struggled to match the Butcher Birds outstanding performance. However, the inception of the Spitfire MkIX was to rapidly redress the balance and represented, in many ways, the coming of age for this classic British fighter, final production of this mark alone totalling 5665 machines. Signed limited edition of 250 prints. Special Promotion - This item is HALF PRICE! Image size 16 inches x 10 inches (41cm x 25cm). Price £36.00 Dundas Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double mounted. Image size 16 inches x 10 inches (41cm x 25cm). Price £180.00 Features the mounted original signature of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE DSO DFC DI. Page Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double matted. Image size 16 inches x 10 inches (41cm x 25cm). Price £190.00 Features the mounted original signature of Wing Commander Geoffrey Page DSO OBE DFC. Brothers Presentation Edition of 3 Limited Edition Prints, supplied double matted. Image size 16 inches x 10 inches (41cm x 25cm). Price £180.00 Features the mounted original signature of Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC*. ITEM CODE B0023 Related Items and Offers: Click Images for Details Eagle Force by Robert Taylor. Buy With This For Only : £245 Robert Taylor Aviation Prints - Hurricane Pack Item Price : £400

Royal Air Force fighter aircraft, maximum speed for mark I Supermarine Spitfire, 362mph up to The Seafire 47 with a top speed of 452mph. maximum ceiling for Mk I 34,000feet up to 44,500 for the mark XIV.  Maximum range for MK I 575 miles . up to  1475 miles for the Seafire 47. Armament for the various Marks of Spitfire. for MK I, and II . eight fixed .303 browning Machine guns, for MK's V-IX and XVI two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 browning machine guns. and on later Marks, six to eight Rockets under the wings or a maximum bomb load of 1,000 lbs.

Designed by R J Mitchell, The proto type Spitfire first flew on the 5th March 1936. and entered service with the Royal Air Force in August 1938, with 19 squadron based and RAF Duxford. by the outbreak of World war two, there were twelve squadrons with a total of 187 spitfires, with another 83 in store. Between 1939 and 1945, a large variety of modifications and developments produced a variety of MK,s from I to XVI.  The mark II came into service in late 1940, and in March 1941, the Mk,V came into service.  To counter the Improvements in fighters of the Luftwaffe especially the FW190, the MK,XII was introduced with its Griffin engine.  The Fleet Air Arm used the Mk,I and II and were named Seafires.

By the end of production in 1948 a total of 20,351 spitfires had been made and 2408 Seafires.  The most produced variant was the Spitfire Mark V, with a total of 6479 spitfires produced.  The Royal Air Force kept Spitfires in front line use until April 1954.

The Thoroughbred (Spitfire) by Ivan Berryman The Spitfire IV was the final mark of this British classic fighter, a total of 5,665 machines were built.