O beauteous Spitfire

A CONTRIBUTOR to a Radio 4 documentary last week said the Spitfire was “without fear of contradiction, the most beautiful plane ever built”. . .

For the next 18 months the Science Museum offers an irresistible bonus for Spitfire admirers. A new exhibition, Inside the Spitfire, undertakes to show us just how it was done. An example of the aircraft, preserved at the RAF Museum, is deconstructed, stripped down to its original structure and displayed in pieces, including its Rolls-Royce Merlin and Griffon engines. Who, looking at the elegantly simple exterior, would have imagined the complexity of the structure within?

Posted by David on August 17, 2005 12:58 PM