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Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]field where the aircraft took off.

[00:00:05]Entered service with number 19 Squadron based at Duxford in 1938.

[00:00:11]And strangely, Duxford has become the home of the Spitfire in England.

[00:00:21]ARCo, uh, aircraft restoration company, is based there and has produced many Spitfires uh and are being rebuilt. Of course, also utilizing the services of Airframe Assemblies down on the Isle of Wight.

[00:00:37]The wing, the elliptical shape wing, is very, very strong. The leading edge is basically a torsion box.

[00:00:51]Very, very complex to make.

[00:00:54]They actually get a sheet of metal and pull it down with hydraulic rams over a mold, unclip the hydraulic rams, they trim it, then they cut that in two, they put doublers on it, then they join them back together again, put in the ribs. The spars themselves are square section, which are actually concentric. They push them one inside the other uh until they get to the point where the dihedral's introduced. They bend the spar. [music] Very, very complex.

[00:01:35]Didn't start off that