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5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight

5th March 2024
Tagged as: Aircraft, Battle of Britain, Britain, RAF, Second World War, Spitfire, Technology, WW2

Captain Joseph “Mutt” Summers, chief test pilot for Vickers, performed a series of exercises to evaluate the Spitfire’s handling characteristics and performance capabilities, and found that the aircraft demonstrated remarkable potential.

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15th March 1906: Rolls-Royce Limited established in Britain

15th March 2023
Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Business, Engine, Invention, Spitfire, Technology

Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight

15th March 1906: Rolls-Royce Limited established in Britain

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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