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Re: No Spitfeur
M'kay Nonny, I'll bite...
With no Spitfires there would have been more industrial capacity to work on and produce some other promising type(s), like perhaps the Hawker Tornado, the granddaddy of subsequent Hawker fighters. Of course the basic need for a new fighter would have given great impetus to subsequent fighter development.
But even with the Spitfire, Hawker seemed to regained its prewar near-monopoly of fighter design: Typhoon, Tempest and finally (Sea-)Fury.
The RAF would have survived...IMHO.
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Ruy Horta
12 O'Clock High!
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
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