Top Bounce by Robert Taylor - Aviation Art

Top Bounce by Robert Taylor Special Gift For Wings Customers! FOUR (4) Ace Profiles Included with Your Purchase (Limited Time)(Limited Quantity Only... While Supplies Last. Example Below.)     Spitfires of the RAF... Under clear skies, a light breeze from the south-west blew across the grass airstrip. It was Thursday 5 March 1936 and K5054 - the prototype of R. J. Mitchell’s beautiful Spitfire fighter was about to make its maiden flight.Vickers Chief Test Pilot 'Mutt' Summers climbed into the cockpit and fired up the new 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which roared into life with an unmistakable and soon-to-be-familiar sound. It was just after 4.30pm when Summers fully opened the throttle and K5054 surged forward and took to the air, the shape of its thin aero-dynamic elliptical wings soon apparent to all on the ground below. One of the most perfect fighting machines of all time had been born, and not a moment too soon because the dark clouds of war were