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Grimly Curmudgeon
 
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Default OT Spitfire and the BBC reporting

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King
saying something like:

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At the end of the war the Spit itself was becoming out-classed by the
likes of the Mustang.


Only 'cos we gave 'em proper engines.


Yep. The Allison was ****e.
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Dave