Photo by John Lackey  #avgeek    

Originally shared by Fly By Photography

Spitfire Sunday?!

Yesterday, 5 March 1939 marked the date of the first flight of the Supermarine Spitfire. Today I give you another Spitfire. Like P-51 Mustangs, you can’t have enough Spitfires!

This is Jim Beasley Jr.’s Spitfire Mk. XVlll at the 2014 Gathering of Warbirds at Carl A Spaatz Field, Reading Regional Airport, Pennsylvania. Early Spitfires were powered by the 1,470 hp. Rolls Royce Merlin driving a three bladed prop, but this post war MK. XVIII is a true hotrod, powered by a 2,050 hp Rolls Royce Griffon driving a five bladed prop!

VRRRRRROOOOM!!
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Jim Beasley Jr. coming around the corner in the Spitfire Mk XVIII.

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