New Spitfires In Service
i Roc. 2 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 13 Faster than any other Spitfire in the service and the destroyer of , over 300 fiying-bombs, the new Spitfire Mark XlV.—is now olficialy described. If. is a single-seater, low-wing, monoplane, with a single fin and rubber, and elliptical wings. It has a Rolls RoyceGriffin engine, driving a five-bladed const tint speed propeller The engine develops over 2000 horse-power. The armament may consist of four 20 m.m. cannon or two 20 m.m. cannon and two machine guns of .5 inch, or two cammon and tour machine guns. II can also carry 2501 b. or 5001 b. bombs. Its perforance is outstanding, both in speed and climb.
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Northern Advocate, 14 September 1944, Page 5
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