Spitfire! - Forty Years On

In the second of two documentaries looking at the development of the Spitfire and its role in World War Two, the programme talks to Battle of Britain pilots and the men and women who built the aircraft and kept them airworthy throughout the war.

It includes an extraordinary story from a female member of the ground crew who one day found herself unexpectedly airborne, clinging to the outside of a plane.

↗ Originally broadcast 9 May 1976.

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