Spits and 109's - Intersting reading

[Ploughman]

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"I was probably a bit nervous since the first guy to fly the day before had killed himself, taking off in coarse pitch, clipping the top of a hangar and crashing into into a paint storage building."


I seem to recall Douglas Bader pranged a Spit taking off in coarse pitch. Ended up in the station commander's office expecting to get a rocket and got promoted instead. Something like that.