Few combat aircraft have captured the public's imagination like the Spitfire. Michael Burns tells the story behind this superlative airplane, from its beginnings in 1936, through its 46 variants to its honorable retirement to the rank of major airshow attraction. Two hundred photographs help show that the later Spitfires, with more than double the power and five times the firepower as their early predecessors, were still clearly derived from those 1936 variants.
- ISBN10 1861261195
- ISBN13 9781861261199
- Publish Date 1 October 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Crowood Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English