the spitfire went out of service with the raf on september 1944.
the spitfire went out of service with the raf on september 1944.
when did the spitfire go out of service with the raf?
september 1944
having previously flown twin-engined aircraft, flight lieutenant powles was ordered to raf finningley in january, 1950, to complete a refresher course on the supermarine spitfire pr14, then to raf leuchars for familiarisation training on the spitfire pr19. following this, he was posted in august to raf tengah in singapore during the malayan emergency, carrying out photo-reconnaissance and ground attack missions in the spitfire fr18 in operation firedog. he transferred to 81 (pr) squadron at raf seletar in 1950, and continued to fly operationally over malaya until he was detached as part of a two spitfire pr.xix flight (spitfires ps852 and ps854) deployed to raf kai tak in hong kong on 1 january 1951. the other pilot was flight sergeant padden. the two flew photo-reconnaissance flights over communist china beginning on 16 january, when powles overflew nearby islands in ps852. powles flew 63 sorties over china in 1951. padden was replaced in turn by flight sergeants mutch, hood and walker. by september, 1952, the flight had photographed sites along the chinese coastline up to 400 nautical miles (740 km) to the south-west of hong kong, and up to 160 nautical miles (296 km) to the north-east, as well as sites up to 100 nautical miles (185 km) from the coast. during these flights, powles set two notable records.
edward powles
bullet::::- hippotes, a son of phylas by leipephilene, daughter of iolaus, and a great-grandnephew of heracles. when the heracleidae, on their invading the peloponnesus, were encamped near naupactus, hippotes killed the seer carnus, in consequence of which the army of the heracleidae began to suffer very severely, and hippotes by the command of an oracle was banished for a period of ten years. he seems to be the same as the hippotes who was regarded as the founder of cnidus in caria.
hippotes