Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a ...

Powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, the Spitfire first entered RAF service with No. 19 Squadron at Duxford on August 4, 1938. Its true test came during the Battle of Britain in 1940.