
Secrets of the Spitfire
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Also by the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prologue - Winter 1943
- 1 - Before Take-off - Early Days in Canada
- From School to Sailing, and a Meccano set
- 2 - Canadian Wings - From Water to Air
- 3 - To Southampton via Dessau, and the Wasserkuppe
- 4 - Supermarine Days
- 5 - Perfecting the Spitfire
- The Drag Coefficients
- 6 - The Mystical Ellipse
- 7 - Supermarine's Modified Double Ellipse
- 8 - The Spitfire's Vital Advantage
- Wing Loading - the Vital Factor
- The Details of Design - the Boundary Layer and the Wing Root Fillet and Tail Designs
- The Wing Root Fillet
- The Tail Design
- 9 - Sailplanes and the Spitfire?
- 10 - Beyond the Leading Edge
- 11 - The Heinkel 70 and Other Issues
- Shenstone's Personal Response to the He 70 Allegations
- Further Key Points
- Summary of He 70 Issues
- 12 - Atlantic Commuter
- 13 - Canada or Britain?
- 14 - British European Airways
- Make do and Mend
- 15 - Viscount, Vanguard and Trident
- Trident Troubles
- 16 - Airliners, Gliders, and Man-Powered Flight
- Gliders
- Man-Powered Flight
- Epilogue: Tail Piece
- Notes
- Appendix - B.S. Shenstone: Published Articles, Papers, Letters and Lectures - 1931 - 1979
- Reference Sources
- Index
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