Supermarine Spitfire: Owners' Workshop Manual (An Insight into Owning, Restoring, Servicing and Flying Britain's Legendary World War 2 Fighter) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alfred Price, Paul Blackah
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
Buy New: £9.19
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3931
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1844254623
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.74640941
EAN: 9781844254620
ASIN: 1844254623
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new book sent 1st class from family owned bookshop
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| Customer Reviews:
 useful & fun !! April 28, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although not an exhaustive technical chronology of this iconic plane this book is a very revealing perspective from various angles. Especially appealing to the non expert it exposes information that would normally be difficult to aquire.
Particularly interesting are the practical issues of flying the Spit today , respect is due to those with the wallet & fortitude to provide the vast majority with the joy of watching it in action !!
Refreshing and worth it's place on the bookshelf.
 Spitfire Manual - An opportunity missed March 3, 2008
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
Those of us that have used Haynes manuals for car maintenance would have expected similar technical coverage for the Spitfire.
And for an aircraft that evolved from a lightweight fighter (Max weight Mk1 = 6,200lb) to a heavy naval strike fighter (max weight Mk47 = 12,750lb) what an evolution that was. That beautiful elliptical wing went through several variants to cope with the weight, performance and armament increase - and the naval version had folding wings.
It would have been wonderful to see, in true Haynes style, how the design team, under Joe Smith, coped with the continual operational pressure to keep the Spitfire the best fighter in the world but unfortunately this was not to be.
The Spitfire Manual is "just another Spitfire Book", it has some excellent photographic artwork and briefly attempts to cover the development and the use of the aircraft.
About a third of the book covers, in photographs, the rebuilding of an RAF Memorial Flight Aircraft but as for that technical coverage, do not look here.
Pity - I would have kept my copy if it had.
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