Spitfire in a sentence

It had a good rate-of-roll, better than the Spitfire, so I would say the plusses to the Spitfire and the Mustang just about equate.

More Merlins were made for the four-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber than for any other aircraft; however, the engine is most closely associated with the Spitfire, starting with the Spitfire's maiden flight in 1936.

An attractive apartment is on the market at a former Spitfire machine gun factory.

He admitted to me that this probably accounted for his ability to take risks that others might have feared—some of them, arguably reckless, such as driving through the countryside of Vietnam in his Triumph Spitfire.

He said: “The Spitfire Makers Charitable Trust was set up three years ago in March 2020.

Highlights of the day included a performance from the Barlow Red Barrows, a bumper turn-out in the livestock competitions and a fly past from a Spitfire and Hurricane from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

In the air, a Spitfire is due to fly past the event from the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Now his four-and-a-half-year passion project can be yours: the military historian, 59, has put his Spitfire up for auction on with a reserve price of £18,600 – though he is expecting bidding to rise beyond that.

Created by local sculptor Mark Williams, the monument includes etched monuments each featuring a one of the major planes from World War II: a Hurricane, a Spitfire and a Lancaster.

Emergency crews were called to a site near on Saturday, May 25, this year after a Spitfire MK356 crashed to the ground.

Four years on from the closure, the owner has submitted plans to turn the former boozer, which is opposite the Spitfire St Lawrence cricket ground, into seven supported living flats.

Gabriel Rodriguez is the co-founder of Best-Case Scenario, an organization dedicated to building safer civic spaces and vice president at Spitfire Strategies.

Housing developer Spitfire Homes has said that all 128 houses in the estate will offer a range of affordable options.

Images from the scene show that the fire has spread over a wide area of the field near Spitfire Way in Manston.

In honour of his memory, villagers, led by his heartbroken father, raised £5,000 to buy a Spitfire which was named after the pilot.

In previous years, however, it has also included a Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Jody Threat asked for a title rematch at Victory Road and if they lost, then Spitfire would break up.

Military enthusiasts from The Spitfire AA810 Project are leading a campaign, backed by and roughly 150 MPs, to put their achievements on the map.

Since seeing a Spitfire fly overhead in Glencoe in 1940 when he was just seven years old, filled with admiration for the daring pilots of the Battle of Britain, he “dreamt of roaming the clouds in such a thrilling machine”.

Spitfire regained the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship to become two-time titleholders.