Without further delay, here's the update for today.

• A new addition among our Product News & Reviews is an impressive new book by Tom Docherty Swift To Battle: 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action.
  
  
• Continuing on the subject of books, a review of today is Spitfire - A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill. This is one of the essential titles for any Spitfire nut.
  
  
• Lastly, a small new addition to the Scale Modelling section; Raul Hrubisko presents his 1/72 model of a Striped Spitfire Mk. I.

Lastly, an off-topic item which I couldn't resist. Throughout aviation history there were only a few aircraft designs that produced instantly recognizable silhouettes in the sky. The Spitfire was - and is - one of them, but one aircraft which had an even more unique shape is the PBY Catalina, an American contemporary to the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Here is a recent photo from Duxford which I found irresistable - PBY was a personality.

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[Neil Lanwarne, via Flickr]

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