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Spitfire's 70th Birthday
#1
Not our Spitfire (got you going though, didn't I? [Wink]), the Spitfire! The Spitfire plane celebrated it's 70th birthday yesterday:
http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/bbmf/spitfire70.html
I heard on the radio that it's test pilot is still alive - aged something like 93!
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#2
Here's an interesting Canadian site with a flying Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster

http://ipmslondon.tripod.com/museumreviews/id14.html

and here's the Telegraph report of the flight of (93) year old Alex Henshaw.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...w_06032006
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#3
Happy Birthday Spitfire!
Martin ~
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#4
[Big Grin] Happy Birthday Jim ! [Big Grin]
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#5
Happy birthday to the one with wings and that's not our Jim, he's far too young.
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#6
Thanks for that Noel........ oh! how I wish it was true. Another couple of years and we could have shared the same birthday (that`s the aircraft and myself).
Jim
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#7
quote:

Originally posted by Spitfire

oh! how I wish it was true.



What's not true? That you're too young? Jim, you may be only a few years younger than the Spitfire, but you're young at heart and that's
what counts! [Smile]
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