Supermarine Type 300 - The Prototype Spitfire, K5054, Eastleigh, May 1936. AA33908
REF: AA33908 Scale: 1:32 Wingspan 350mm Limited Edition (2,370) Free Book This is the most important Spitfire model ever produced. Replicating the Prototype K5054 produced at the famous Eastleigh plant near Southampton, this pre-production Spitfire and the thousands of aircraft that followed her off the production line helped change the shape of modern history and have as a consequence become part of our own history. Corgi have reproduced this historic aircraft in intricate detail, included are movable control surfaces, detailed cockpit, with pilot figure and opening cockpit canopy and door, retractable undercarriage, detailed engine and removable engine cowling. Also included is Sigh For A Merlin (Testing The Spitfire) by Test Pilot Alex Henshaw a detailed account of Alex Henshaws life with the Spitfire. This fascinating book retails for £10.99 By early March of 1936 the prototype, K5054, had completed the ground trials and engine run-up tests and the necessary Aeronautical Inspection Directorate's Certificate had been issued and so The Spitfire was ready for the first flight. There has been much debate upon the exact date that this flight took place although the Spitfire historian Alfred Price uncovered a hand written report of the expenditure on the Spitfire programme dated 29 February 1936 amounting to £14,637 on which is hand written "flown 5 March 1936".
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