Thanks for this.

We owe so much to RJ.. a true genius

So much has been shown about the Spitfire, I think this is the best Video and i grew up with William Woolard on tomorrow's world always had such character and you feel he really cared about what he was saying.

Nicely done. A good documentary about a great man.

I guess removing the VCR info was above the poster's level of A/V skills.

Thank goodness for the genius of R.J.Mitchell.

@dukecraig2402

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, way to go on that one England👍👍👍it's a shame Mitchell died before he got to see his invention become a legend.

@hannecatton2179

5 жыл бұрын

@@dukecraig2402 Thanks Duke. Where are you from if you don´t mind me asking ?

@dukecraig2402

5 жыл бұрын

@@hannecatton2179 America, I live in Ohio now but I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, like most 54 year old little boys I like airplanes, especially ones with piston engines in them, I really like the Typhoon, that's a real beast of an airplane like a Thunderbolt, I like the Spits and Mustangs of course but I'm partial to the nastier ones like Typhoons and Thunderbolts, they're like entering a hockey player in a figure skating contest, but it's a figure skating contest to the death, I've always thought of Spitfires and Mustangs like a Wather PPK with wings, very elegant, but Typhoons and Thunderbolts are like a .455 Webley with wings, once it's pointed at the victim it's likely they'll die of fright before the operator even has to pull the trigger.

MY FAVOURITE AIR PLANE IS THE SPITFIRE MK 1,,,,

Awesome documentary

Great achievements

The R Type engine later became the basis of the Griffon.

Above all, this documentary was a paragon as to how to do the job. The script was intelligently written and convincingly presented. Of course it was produced at a time when some of the surviving participants clearly reflected the rather stuffy characters from a social structure thankfully largely gone. To their credit they didn't indulge overtly in the jingoism prevalent in pre-war Britain and contributed articulate testimony without vicarious fawning over Mitchell and his achievements. All attributes sadly lacking in todays treatment of this and similar topics. One of the finest presentations of what was indeed a colossally important product that showed Hitler he wasn't the superman he thought he was.

TAPE D 33 kind of ruins this...

I've just watched the first two minutes of this and it is complete tripe. Mitchell was not restricted by the government specification when he designed the type 224 (also called the Spitfire) he simply made a mess of it. Determined to do better he took a proposal to the government who liked it and funded it. This was the type 300 which we all know as the Spitfire. This aircraft was never a private venture and it was never opposed by the Air Ministry who paid for it from the start. The mythology that this documentary repeats is put about by people with an axe to grind, "Government bad, private enterprise good'. The truth is that none of these companies would have survived without sucking the taxpayers teat .

It goes without saying that the Spitfire would not have been possible without the huge contribution of Islamic science.

@faainspector9699

7 жыл бұрын

arseman arse Are you quoting from the 1001. Islamic inventions book.???????............i do believe that book never was in print because of fraudulent claims amd outright taqiyya..

@dambuster6387

6 жыл бұрын

What???????????????????????????????/

@barrierodliffe4155

6 жыл бұрын

Islamic science is the most stupid idea out.

@markstedman8186

5 жыл бұрын

@Reg Barlow Reg Barlow actually "zero" predates Islam and I think that mathematical solution originated from Persia

@rodparsons521

5 жыл бұрын

@Mark Stedman The fact remains that some knowledge might have been lost or transmission delayed if not for the role of Arabic scholarship.