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Old 16th Sep 2005, 20:23   #1 (permalink)

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Reginald Mitchell's statue at the Science Museum
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as we say south of the Channel : mieux vaut tard que jamais
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If memory serves me correctly, there's an excellent bust of him in the Hall of Aviation in Southampton.

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"Victory was made possible by the Spitfire."

Wonder if the stats boys and the ladies and gents who worked at Hawker aircraft agree with that!

I visited Kermit Weeks museum in Florida last year, and their hype claims that the P51 Mustang won the war.............all by itself!
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"I don't care who gets the credit, so long as we don't get the blame".

Sir Thomas Sopwith.
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