The Supermarine Spitfire Mark I was ... As the war progressed so did the Spitfire. After the original designer RJ Mitchell died in 1937, his successor Joe Smith developed the fighter to make ...

Back in the 1930s, Reginald Mitchell, an engineer born in Staffordshire, UK, made his mark by designing the Spitfire, a warplane widely used during World War II. Now, a Staffordshire-based ...