spitfire

Replace all parts of a spitfire until just one piece remains original, and you have an original spitfire.

The Rolls Royce Merlin engine, used in both the Spitfire and the P-51, was last manufactured in 1950.

Interestingly, while Django is currently seeing very modest speedups (4%) on the unladen-swallow benchmarks, Spitfire is up by 70%.

Considering how rare the parts are and the difficulty of finding someone qualified to actually do the work, $4mil is certainly very reasonable, especially if the Spitfire is actually flight worthy.

Not like anyone's anxious to pull the P-51 or Spitfire out of mothballs, certainly.

Novell has been lost at sea for years, as Spitfire says, not from lack of sail or wind, but lack of direction.

I think 'spitfire is alleging that a new Aston twenty years ago was more or less a 1975 XJS.

That's definetly progress, but still, the point made by spitfire is true: The real challenge is adoption, not tech.

I bet Spitfire era fighter pilots thought the same thing, before the advent to inherently unstable computer controlled fighters.

The spectacularly effective British Vickers Supermarine Spitfire (against which this plane would have hypothetically been pitched) was based on a peacetime racer, the S-6B.

Perhaps your first paragraph explains why the Spitfire had thin wings.

Yes if my farther had been in his house in Birmingham in the second world war I might not be here - the Luftwaffe was going for the almost next door spitfire plant.

My favorite is the "spitfire kit": "Each kit will allow users to kindle a...fire...

Googling them it looks like those A26 could be shoot down by a Supermarine Spitfire.

In 1940 Germany had the ME BF 109, which was outclassed by Britain's Spitfire.

Spitfire was only on-time compared to the debacle of Viking and Voyager.