Spitfire & Lancaster

Spitfire
With the courage and skill of ghter aces like johnnie ]ohnson,Sailor Malan and Bobby Tuck, the Supermarine Spitre helped change the course of the war in favour of the Allies. The only match for the Luftwaffes Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Spitre played a major role in the success of the Battle of Britain. The classic combination of airframe, Rolls Royce Merlin engine and dual cannon/machine gun armament struck terror into the hearts of the enemy’s most fearless yers and won the aircraft a place in history as a timeless thoroughbred ghter. The Spitre fought in the front line throughout the war, and rightly remains an aviation legend today. Combining dramatic wartime lm with colour footage of surviving Spitres in ight, this is the denitive documentary of a thoroughbred ghter.
Lancaster
As RAF Bomber Command took the war to the enemy under Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris, the four-engined Avro Lancaster reigned supreme, replacing the rugged, reliable Wellington in laying waste to German cities by night. This most successful of all World War II heavies’ could carry more than its own weight in bomb load, including the 21,000 pound Grand Slam Earthquake bomb – the biggest conventional weapon ever made. And when fearless Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron to fame on the low-level Dambuster raid – one of the wars most daring operations – the Lancaster was confirmed as an aviation legend. With recent colour lm of City of Lincoln, the RAFs last airworthy Lancaster, among the wartime’footage, this is the Lancaster’s dramatic story.