Nice to see this. Regular followers will know that one of John Dundas's Spitfires - #SpitfireR6915 - is on display at #IWMLondon
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A photograph of Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, Rogers Miller takes #SpitfireR6915 into battle over the Isle of Wight with No.609 Squadron RAF. In a swirling dogfight involving a formation of at least 80 Messerschmitt 110s, 609 Squadron pilots account for four 110s and three 109s without loss.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 4pm, Noel Agazarian takes off in #SpitfireR6915. His sortie is one of a patrol in force by No.609 Squadron, over Swanage at 12,000 feet. Taking off alongside him are Pilot Officers Curchin, Appleby, and Crook, and Flight Lieutenant MacArthur of B Flight.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 5:15pm, Noel Agazarian takes off in #SpitfireR6915 for an hour's patrol over Portland at 10,000 feet. He's accompanied by Flying Officer Alexander Edge.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 7:45pm Noel Agazarian takes off in #SpitfireR6915 to patrol Portland at 10,000 feet. He's accompanied by some familiar faces; Flying Officer Little, and Pilot Officers Appleby, Staples, and Curchin, all from B Flight, No.609 Squadron RAF.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 3:20pm, Noel Agazarian takes #SpitfireR6915 up on a patrol at 10,000 feet over RAF Warmwell, an airfield in Dorset. He's accompanied by Pilot Officer Michael Appleby, and they land at 4:15.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
This morning in 1940, at 06:55, Noel Agazarian takes off in #SpitfireR6915 for a short and uneventful fifteen-minute patrol over his base. He's accompanied by Flying Officer Bernard Little and Flight Lieutenant Stephen Beaumont.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Tonight in 1940, at 8:40pm, Noel Agazarian takes #SpitfireR6915 up on its fifth patrol of the day. As the sun sets, Agazarian and three others patrol their base at 10,000 feet. They land after an hour, at 9:40.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, barely 30 minutes after P/O Curchin lands #SpitfireR6915, 23-year-old Pilot Officer Michael Staples takes the aircraft up once again, this time on a cloudbase patrol over their base. He lands fifteen minutes later.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
HMS Delight. IWM photo FL 11185
Today in 1940, at 18:20, Pilot Officer John Curchin takes off in #SpitfireR6915 to mount a patrol over Swanage with B Flight. Meanwhile, No.609 Squadron's A Flight patrol over damaged Royal Navy destroyer HMS Delight, which has been struck by Stuka divebombers
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 4:40pm, Noel Agazarian takes #SpitfireR6915 on another patrol over Portland. The Isle is home to an important Royal Navy base specialising in anti-submarine warfare but, with the fall of France, now finds itself in the frontline. #BattleOfBritain85
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Agazarian is 23 years old, and the son of French and Armenian immigrants. A successful school and university sportsman, he first learns to fly as a member of the Oxford University Air Squadron. He will take #SpitfireR6915 on more operational patrols during the #BattleOfBritain85 than any other pilot
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940 at 1:50pm Pilot Officer Noel Agazarian takes off in #SpitfireR6915. It is the aircraft's first operational patrol with No.609 Squadron, Royal Air Force. With three other pilots from B Flight, Agazarian patrols Portland at 20,000 feet.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Squadron badge of No.609 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, on display at the Royal Air Force Museum. The badge features a white rose of Yorkshire with crossed hunting horns, and the motto 'Tally Ho'.
Today in 1940, #SpitfireR6915 - now on display at IWM London - is transferred to No.609 (West Riding) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Based at RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire, the Squadron has already fought over Dunkirk. #BattleOfBritain85
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More about the Battle of Britain exploits of #SpitfireR6915 as the summer progresses.
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After its successful test flight, #SpitfireR6915 is passed to No.6 Maintenance Unit at RAF Brize Norton. For the time being, R6915 waits to be assigned to a fighter squadron. Along the English coast, the Kanalkampf - Channel Battle - is already underway.
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A Luftwaffe aerial photograph of Southampton, annotated with various targets
This contract puts #SpitfireR6915 in the first two thousand Spitfires - out of a total production of more than 20,000.
The Woolston works were well known to the German air force, the Luftwaffe, as this annotated aerial photograph shows. The Woolston works are in the area marked 'B - Flugzeugfabrik'
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#SpitfireR6915 was built at Supermarine's Woolston works in Southampton, among a 50-aircraft batch of an order for 450 Spitfires, itself part of a 4000-Spitfire contract first placed with the company on 9 August 1939 - three weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Spitfire R6915 on display at #IWMLondon
Today in 1940, IWM's #SpitfireR6915 makes its first flight at Eastleigh, near Southampton, with test pilot George Pickering at the controls. Its Battle of Britain combat service, at the hands of 13 pilots, lie ahead of it. #AvHist #SWW #WW2 #OTD
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Supermarine Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London.
Lovely pic. During the Battle of Britain in August 1940 IWM's #SpitfireR6915 made a forced landing at White Waltham, hit in the oil sump by fire from a Heinkel 111.
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With the passing of the last of The Few, a look at #SpitfireR6915 at #IWMLondon. 13 of the Few - inc. two Poles and two Americans - flew this Spitfire on 57 sorties during the 1940 Battle of Britain, destroying & damaging numerous enemy aircraft, & several times were forced down with battle damage.
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