Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire 2013, A MK26 80% scale Spitfire crashed in Adelaide, Australia. The pilot, as the only passenger in the aircraft, died as a result of the accident. Official findings show pilot error as the main contributor of the accident, however, the ATSB report stated: "The aircraft was prone to aerodynamically stall with little or no aerodynamic precursors and it was not fitted with a stall warning device, increasing the risk of inadvertent stall." Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire The Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire is an Australian homebuilt aircraft produced in kit form by Supermarine Aircraft. A replica of the famous British Supermarine Spitfire World
Aircraft in fiction Harbor" (2001), directed by Michael Bay, included a sequence which featured Spitfires. A Spitfire Mk Vb featured in at least three episodes of the British ITV television series "Foyle's War" (2002-2015). The central character Detective Foyle has a son Andrew, who is a pilot in the Royal Air Force during WW2. One episode to feature the Spitfire was "Among the Few" in season 2 where one of Andrew's fellow pilots is revealed to be a secret homosexual and guilty of manslaughter. Spitfires starred in the 2006 seven-minute short film/commercial "Pilots" produced by the Swiss-German watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen to promote