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Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story [Paperback]

Jeffrey Quill (Author)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Crecy Publishing; New edition edition (1 Oct 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0947554726
ISBN-13: 978-0947554729
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.1 x 1.7 cm

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 242,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pilot Magazine September 1999

A worthy memorial to an exceptional pilot, and a great aircraft.

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During the First World War, when I was very small, an aeroplane once landed on the stretch of common between our house at Littlehampton in Sussex and the sea. Read the first page

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Excellent from both a technical and personal point of view 24 July 2000

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Jeffrey Quill captures the spirit of the spitfire as only one whio was so intimately responsible for its birth and success can. Extremely readable personel account of Quill's life is backed by the engrossing technical defects and remedies the he and his team at Supermarine encountered and were able to correct to produce this greatest of air fighters.

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A excellent book 8 Oct 2006

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Here is every detail you would want to have in a book which is also very readable. It will suit Spitfire nuts and general history reader. A very good read.

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Spitfire. A Test pilots story 29 Jan 2009

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A very informative book. Gives you a great insight into the development of this fantastic machine.

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