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Summer of 44 by Stuart Brown.
MkIX Supermarine Spitfires take off for evening patrol of the Normandy coast, June 1944.
Signed limited edition of 850 prints. Image size 23 inches x 16 inches (58cm x 41cm). Price £95.00 Each print is signed by WWII Spitfire pilot and the broadcasting voice of British aviation, Raymond Baxter (deceased)
ITEM CODE SBR0001
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Spitfire MKIX Taking Off by Barry Price.
Open edition print. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE NTR0034
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Spitfire MKIX by Barry Price.
Open edition print. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £13.00
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MkIX Spitfires, June 1944 by Barry Price.
Open edition prints. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE NTR0017
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Spitfire Dawn by Keith Woodcock.
Signed limited edition of 500 prints. Image size 18 inches x 9 inches (46cm x 23cm). Price £55.00
ITEM CODE DHM2602
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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.
Summer of 44 by Stuart Brown MkIX
Supermarine Spitfires take off for evening patrol of the Normandy coast,
June 1944. Signed by Raymond Baxter, WWII Spitfire pilot and well
known broadcasting voice of British Aviation.
Raymond Frederic Baxter was born in
Ilford, Essex, in
1922, In August 1940 he joined the Royal Air Force, he trained
as a fighter pilot. Once training was complete he flew Spitfires.
Initially during the North African Campaign also during the defence of the
embattled island of Malta and during the Sicilian and Italian
campaigns. On September 11, 1943, he was shot down by “friendly”
groundfire from American forces. while flying over Sicily to cover the
Allied landings at Salerno, After crash landing with no major
injuries he returned to Britain to become a Fighter Pilot instructor. This
was followed by a posting to Cairo in whihc he ferried aircraft across
North Africa. It was hear that in 1945 he decided to join the
Forces Broadcasting in Cairo and soon moving on to the BBC. He
died on September 15, 2006, aged 84.
