City of Edinburgh Squadron War Memorial
Posted in Edinburgh, War Memorials at 10:00 on 8 November 2015
In the form of a Spitfire, this is situated at the side of the entrance road to Edinburgh Airport (former RAF Turnhouse.)
Tags: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Airport, RAF Turnhouse, Second World War, World War 2, WW2, WWII
Denis Cullinan
8 November 2015 at 14:12
What a warplane!
The Mustang was to have beaten the performance of the Spitfire sixteen ways from Sunday, but the U.S. Army Air Corps soon found that it behaved poorly at altitude, even at a modest alitude of 10,000 feet, a failing that was corrected when all the Mustangs were fitted with Merlin engines. The saying, maybe a bit rich, ran: What the Spitfire could do for one hour, the Mustang could do for eight hours. The reason was that the Mustang’s entire fuselage was filled with fuel.
Almost ten years ago, my daughter took me to the Kelvingrove Museum, where I was able to admire a fine Spitfire suspended from the ceiling of the lobby.
——Denis Cullinan
jackdeighton
11 November 2015 at 19:07
Denis,
Yes. The Spitfire was famously a dream to fly plus it looked/looks beautiful.
I was going to say that that Kelvingrove Spitfire is still there but I’ve just seen a news item which said it was taken down today for maintenance purposes. It won’t be long till it’s back up I suppose.
As to the Mustang: great range but I wouldn’t have liked to sit in front of all that inflammable fuel.