Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m looking at a Spitfire. At least, I’m looking at what I have been told is a Spitfire. At the moment it is a ...
In one of two books he wrote, Spitfire: A Test Pilot’s Story – which is still in print – he describes the Mk XIV as a splendid aircraft, and dedicates a whole chapter to it. One of the facts he ...