Spitfire - Wrebbit Jigsaw Puzzle Size: Height = 12.375 inches
Width = 32.5 inches Depth = 26 inches Can be suspended or
displayed on a decorative stand (stand included). Structurally
the Spitfire was a straightforward design with a light alloy
monocoque fuselage and a single spar wing with stressed-skin
covering and fabric-covered control surfaces. The Spitfire was
adapted from Reginald Mitchell's aesthetically pleasing 1925
F.7/30 design. To preserve the clean nose-cowling lines
originally conceived by Mitchell, the radiator was located
beneath the starboard wing with the smaller oil cooler causing
some asymmetry beneath the port wing, and the carburetor air
intake under the center fuselage. A DeHavilland two-blade wooden
fixed-pitch propeller was employed by the prototype and the
first Spitfire I's had the Airscrew Company's wooden fixed-pitch
two-blade. Later a DeHavilland three-blade, two position
propeller was adopted after trials on the first prototype. The
new propeller gave a 5 mph increase in speed.