Biography
Take to the air with us, as we travel from humankind's earliest attempts to fly to the heroic work of Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell.
Spitfire: the Basics
The Spitfire was by no means the only combat aircraft on which Britain relied to ward off the threat of invasion during the second world war, but it quickly became the most celebrated.
Early Flight
Serious attempts to find a way of enabling humans to fly can be traced back to the aeronautical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in around 1500. “A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law,” Leonardo declared. “It lies within the power of man to make this instrument with all its motions.”
The Spitfire - a Biography
The Spitfire fighter plane occupies pole position in the history of British combat aircraft.
