Fitting the very clean airframe with the 1,450 hp Merlin “turned an aircraft of limited value into a world beater,” Caygill noted. Comparisons of the Mustang and the Spitfire were inevitable.

While the airframe of the Spitfire, with its beautifully elliptical wings and sleek lines, was certainly revolutionary, it was the mighty Merlin that made the plane what it was.

The airframe and the engine have 175.05 hours since overhaul, while the propeller has just 42.24 hrs since it was refreshed in 2020. Unlike most other Spitfire produced, the HF version was ...

Matt Newsum Hi Jase, One of the reasons that the Spitfire has deteriorated is due to age, so some of the parts of the airframe have had to be 'mended and attended' as it were.

A flying-condition Spitfire is worth up to £1-2m compared with £20-50,000 two decades ago. In two weeks, 22 Spitfires will take to the sky over Cambridgeshire in what the Imperial War Museum ...

The G.59 utilized a British engine instead, the same Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 that powered the Supermarine Spitfire and North American P-51 Mustang to victory over the Axis forces during the war.

The Silver Spitfire is set to become the first of its type to fly around the world. Pilot Steve Brooks says the Spitfire is the "most iconic" machine ever made.

The Spitfire’s Surprising Role in World War II: More Than Just a Fighter Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire.