Supermarine Spitfire - From Failure to Icon

This video was sponsored by the Royal Air Force.

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⚜ Sources ⚜
Alfred Price, The Spitfire Story

Eric Morgan, Spitfire - The History

A.P. 15657 P.L.-P.N., Pilot's Notes for Spitfire IX,Xi & XVI

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⚜ Acknowledgements ⚜
I'd like to thank the staff of their Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Bunker for their kind welcome and assistence. Thank you also to Alan W., Charlie, Ellie R., Jenny Q.-J., Will C. and Will M.-J..

⚜ Music ⚜
Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

⚜ DISCLAIMER ⚜
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[MilitaryAviationHistory]

Hey all, very glad to see you all enjoying this video. Slight hickup on the engine information - it happens. Happy to see that some of you caught it, feels great to have such a dedicated community of aviation fans :)

[CCole]

This is super cool that a youtuber gets to collaborate with the RAF

[armin]

Pure joy to watch. That hangar is probably the coolest backdrop you can get and that rolling shot at the start is great!

[eric]

Holy crap, the actual, literal Royal Air Force helped sponsor this video. That is absolutely amazing

[colinrussell]

Two from the RAF? And of the sexiest plane in the world? And with excellent camera work? You really spoil us bis

[MrJelioy]

What have we done to deserve two RAF videos? I really hope there will be more to come. One about the Hurricane would be more than appreciated. Spitfire sure is the most beautiful plane that has ever flown.

[corbeau]

I don't usually comment, but holy shit I need to say this.

You have seriously upped your videos' quality. This is actually amazing. This is something I could see being aired on TV.

Keep it up!

[GregsAirplanesandAutomobiles]

I really enjoyed that. It's an excellent video with some good content. I really liked getting to see the various cooler locations and fluid reservoirs you pointed out. Showing the details of the wing structure was good as well. I know you mis-spoke at one point calling the Merlin an 'inverted" engine, but who cares? We all know what you meant, and it's really hard to speak for 20mins straight without a single slip up, I can't do it. Again, great job, and I am looking forward to the next one.

[Splattle]

Good video. :D Regarding the 'Don't touch anything, ' comment from the test pilot, he later explained that this was a normal procedure. He didn't want anything changed before he'd given his report and it could be fully analysed. It wasn't really an endorsement, it was an instruction.

[ponddipper]

I find it crazy how these machines, and all other war equipment, was built by the thousands, and now there are so few left in such great condition.
Major props to those who maintain these machines and also to you Bismarck!
Love these videos, !

[dukecraig]

It really is a shame that Mr Mitchell didn't live to see his beautiful aircraft turn out to be such a icon of military aviation, but thank God he was there to do it, RIP Reginald J Mitchell 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍👍

[JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

My mother was a nurse in World War II in London. She was a pretty attractive young woman and so they had her taken care of Pilots that have been burned in their Spitfires. The positioning of the gas tanks out of necessity was fairly tragic and reality. Many British Pilots lost their vision and in many cases their faces dude fuel fires in the Spitfire. Before you question that or dismiss remember my mother took care of them. The burn Ward for the pilots featured many young attractive nurses to cheer up the pilots. That's how my mother had chosen to work there.

[antivalidisme]

Love your Britain trip videos, what a great couple of weeks. While I'm not especially a planes addict, as both an engineer and modern History fan, listening to you talking about all the technical stuff and the story behind the concept and the modifications while admiring all the details of this beautiful piece of aircraft is delightful. What a nice hangar! Love the Spitfire/Dakota line of sight.
If the most classy sponsor award of all the YT sphere was to be discerned I would have my money on you Bismarck!
9:51 have to share this with my colleagues!

[Mannock]

After over fifty years of reading about the Spitfire, I thought that I knew all there was to know, short of flying it. I am delighted to say that I learned a lot from this film, including the two fuel tanks. Also, I don't have an aversion to the clipped wings either. Good work, Bismarck!

[MrrMatts]

I live near Goodwood and it is an absolute joy to see spitfires flying. In the summer you see them almost daily.

[stevebroughton]

Brilliant video.

Forget the politics of the Britain and America had some awesome machines.

[Ingens_Scherz]

I'm just blown away by the quality of YouTube documentary journalism in general these days, but of this channel in particular. I'm so glad I've discovered it.

[MyILoveMinecraft]

Honestly I think it's school that history YouTube has come so far by now that somebody who is very in depth and serious about his content can get a chance to work with the freaking RAF

[JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

Great work Bismarck. Love the new vids you are doing.

[usernamesreprise]

One small correction to the description of the cooling is a highly flammable fuel not a coolant its actually ETHYLENE glycol which is an anti freeze additive.