| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Foreword by Air Marshal Mick McLaren OLM (Retired); Preface by The Malloch Family; Author's Note; Glossary of Terms; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 29 March 1980; Chapter 2 The Ultimate Spitfire; Chapter 3 Royal Air Force (RAF) Service Life,1945-1951; Chapter 4 Southern Rhodesian Air Force (SRAF) Service Life, 1951-1977; Chapter 5 The Decision to Restore SR64; Chapter 6 Captain Jack; Chapter 7 JMM's Engineers; Chapter 8 Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 9 The Griffon Growls Again; Chapter 10 The Other Men in Her Life; Chapter 11 The Pursuit of a Dream |
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Epilogue Jack's Legacy: A Celebration of PerfectionPostscript A Final Visit; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix A Vickers Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 21Cutaway Drawing; Appendix B Vickers Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 22Specifications; Appendix C SRAF/RRAF Spitfire Pilots; Appendix D SRAF Spitfires; Appendix E ATA and Affretair Engineers, 1977-1980; Appendix F Notable Flights of Spitfire PK350, 1945-1982; Appendix G Flying Hours for Spitfire Mk 22 PK350/SR64 as a Restored Aircraft; Index |
| Summary |
This is the story of the pursuit of a dream. Spitfire PK350 is the only late-mark Spitfire, an F Mk 22, to have ever been restored to full flying status. She had no restrictions on her airframe and with four fully serviceable 20mm cannons, she was as good as the day she came off the production line in July 1945 near Birmingham, England. She first flew as a restored aircraft on 29 March 1980 at the hands of one John McVicar ""Jack"" Malloch. By then a legend in his adopted country, Rhodesia, Malloch had in 1977 been entrusted by the hierarchy of the Rhodesian Air Force to restore SR64, as she wa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Malloch, John McVicar
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Zimbabwe. Air Force -- History
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Zimbabwe. Air Force fast |
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Spitfire (Fighter plane)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Zimbabwean
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Armed Forces
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Spitfire (Fighter plane)
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Zimbabwe -- Biography
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Zimbabwe -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149817
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Zimbabwe -- Armed Forces -- History
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Zimbabwe
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Biographies
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History
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Military history
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612002538 |
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1612002536 |
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