Beyond the Spitfire XMAS NR based on the timeless designs

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Beyond the Spitfire XMAS NR based on the timeless designsPopular history has a tendency to simplify, and accounts of the life and career of aeronautical engineer R. J. Mitchell are no exception. Remembered most fondly for his epochal Spitfire design, his other designs many of them failures and disappointments have largely been ignored. As a designer for Supermarine, Mitchell produced a huge body of concepts, projects and ideas that never left the drawing board. In Beyond the Spitfire Ralph Pegram brings