were in action over the Netherlands alongside six Spitfires from No. 66 Squadron. The 19th July 1940 saw the Defiant used in the Battle of Britain (10th July 1940 - 31st October 1940) for the first

armament of the Fulmar matched the early Supermarine Spitfire Mks of eight 0.303-in machine-guns, but the Fulmar could carry double the ammunition. 127 examples of the new aircraft were ordered, however

numbers when it met the Royal Air Force's Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane with all three aircraft being evenly matched. The next in the lineage was the Bf 109F 'Friedrick' which featured a

For this article we have used the Supermarine Spitfire as the example aircraft, as this was one of the two main types used by Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. We have only detailed the official

nearly 30 mph faster than the Supermarine Spitfire Mk II in service at the time, thanks to a pair of 1,460-hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 21 engines, a range of over 2,000 miles and able to reach 35,000 ft. The

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