There is nothing so beautiful and moving, no single man-made creation of wood and steel that can tap into male emotion as quickly, as strongly as the Spitfire.
There is nothing so beautiful and moving, no single man-made creation of wood and steel that can tap into male emotion as quickly, as strongly as the Spitfire.
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by mark smith
When the musician Alex James flew one recently, he said: "I can't recall being moved quite so viscerally by anything fashioned by human hands or minds."
Pilot Colin McGregor, brother of Ewan, said the same thing after his flight on a Spitfire. As soon as he landed, he broke down. "It was everything rolled into one," he said. "My impression of how the aeroplane would be, how I'd been brought up with that image of it, and the guys that flew it."
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In praise of - . SPITFIRES.
There is nothing so beautiful and moving, no single man-made creation of wood and steel that can tap into male emotion as quickly, as strongly as the Spitfire.
When the musician Alex James flew one recently, he said: "I can't recall being moved quite so viscerally by anything fashioned by human hands or minds."
Pilot Colin McGregor, brother of Ewan, said the same thing after his flight on a Spitfire. As soon as he landed, he broke down. "It was everything rolled into one," he said. "My impression of how the aeroplane would be, how I'd been brought up with that image of it, and the guys that flew it."
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