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Old 07-25-2012, 08:33 PM
Sandstone Sandstone is offline
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Originally Posted by robtek View Post
All this together made the Spitfire to a thoroughbred which needed sensitive hands on the controls.

A plane for the virtuosos, not the ham-fisted.
And yet it was flown in combat, very successfully, by pilots with very low hours.