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With its sleek, graceful design, instantly recognisable by its
thin, aerodynamically advanced elliptical wings, the Supermarine
Spitfire was the creation of R. J. Mitchell, an aeronautical
creative genius. His fighter was to become not only the most
important Allied aircraft of World War II, but the most famous
British fighter in history. Gerald Coulson's majestic new painting
captures a pair of Spitfire Mk1s at dawn high above the clouds
over southern England in late 1940. An iconic tribute from the
artist to the greatest fighter aircraft of all time. |