First Spitfire & First Hurricane

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JDK
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First Spitfire & First Hurricane

Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:22 am

Two shots from the personal album of Paddy Heffernan, RAAF, exchange officer with the RAF in in mid thirties. Now in the RAAF Museum Archives.

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And the Spitfire Society's static replica Spitfire seen at Duxford some years ago:

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Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:14 am

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Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:16 am

She looks pretty "right" even as a prototype, the first of almost 23,000. Notice that big fixed prop, and the exhaust residue on the side of the engine cowling. I don't think there were any exhaust stacks, just the bare ports on the side of the engine.
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