Today's 04/08/2008 celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the Spitfire entering RAF service....cool footage from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7540305.stm

This photograph was taken as G-ALGT took off from Woodford in 1992, minutes later the aircraft was involved in a fatal crash which saw Rolls Royce Pilot David Moore loose his life

TD 248 was in the Battle of Britain Film and then sat on a pole outside RAF Sealand until 1988 until she was restored to flying condition in 1992, she was photographed here at the RAFA Woodford Air SHow in 1993 wearing a 41 sqdn colour scheme in Front of a 41 squadron Jaguar 

and from the "Spit" came the Seafire and here is Kennet Avaitions Seafire XVII G-KASK / SX 336