Thijs Postma - Poster - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.24 In HongKong PH-AJU A painting of a nostalgic

A painting of a nostalgic plane

left Martinair to set up his own company

marking a contribution of Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam)

The Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 was made of wood but still overweight and underpowered

In September 1939 a KLM DC-3 ‘Mees’ (the PH-ASM) en route from Copenhagen to Schiphol came under fire by a German patrol

Thijs Postma - Poster - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.24 In HongKong PH-AJU A painting of a nostalgicGet the last operational Spitfires at home! This gouache shows the ultimate Spitfires of No. 80 Squadron in HongKong in 1950. They were based on Kai Tak. The markings show identification stripes introduced in the Korean War. The Supermarine Spitfire Mk. 24 was the last development of the Spitfire. The Mk. 24 has a maximum speed of 730km h, or 170km h faster than the first model. And it could reach 40,000ft, that is 10,000ft more than before.