Photo credits
Every photo on this site comes from Wikimedia Commons. The wartime photos are official RAF and Royal Navy photographs from the Imperial War Museums’ collections, marked public domain on Commons as expired UK Crown copyright; the museum photo of the Smithsonian’s Spitfire is CC0. Images are cropped and resized; no other changes were made.
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Supermarine Spitfire. E(MOS)483.jpg
by Royal Air Force official photographer (IWM E(MOS) 483), Public domain
Supermarine Spitfire Mark Is of No. 610 Squadron based at Biggin Hill, flying in 'vic' formation, 24 July 1940. CH740.jpg
by Daventry B J (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer (IWM CH 740), Public domain
Supermarine Spitfires of the Royal Air Force in Italy, January 1944 TR1537.jpg
by Royal Air Force official photographer (IWM TR 1537), Public domain
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV flown by the CO of No. 610 Squadron RAF, Squadron Leader R A Newbury, based at Friston, Sussex, 3 July 1944. CH13815.jpg
by Forward (Flying Officer), Royal Air Force official photographer (IWM CH 13815), Public domain
Squadron Leader H J L Hallowes, CO of No. 122 Squadron, with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk V at Scorton in Yorkshire, December 1941. CH4275.jpg
by Royal Air Force official photographer, Watkins J R (Mr) (IWM CH 4275), Public domain
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE of No. 412 Squadron RCAF, armed with a 250-lb GP bomb under each wing, taxies out for a sortie at Volkel, Holland, 27 October 1944. CL1451.jpg
by Lea T (Plt Off), Royal Air Force official photographer (IWM CL 1451), Public domain
Supermarine Spitfire HF. Mk. VIIc - DPLA - 227878e4f689edc765fa265b52dc388b (page 1).jpg
by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, CC0
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1 of No. 19 Squadron RAF being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, near Duxford, September 1940. CH1367.jpg
by Stanley Arthur Devon (IWM CH 1367), Public domain
A Supermarine Seafire landing on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, February 1943. A20643.jpg
by Royal Navy official photographer (IWM A 20643), Public domain
Formation of No.19 Squadron RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Is in 1938 over Cambridgeshire.jpg
by RAF official photographer (IWM CH 19), Public domain
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Supermarine Spitfire. CH1451.jpg
by Stanley Arthur Devon (IWM CH 1451), Public domain
The aircraft silhouette, wingtip, propeller and radiator schematics and the speed chart are our own original drawings, not scale plans and not copied from any manufacturer or museum drawing. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.
Using these photos doesn’t mean any photographer, museum or organisation endorses this site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Rolls-Royce, any successor to Supermarine or Vickers-Armstrongs, or any museum named on this site. Names are used only to identify the aircraft, engines and organisations discussed. Aircraft drawings are our own original stylised graphics, not scale plans.