MOVIE MESSERSCHMITTS
I fever a pair of warbirds owed much of their survival to the film industry, it is the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Me-109—or more often in the latter case, its stand-in, the Hispano Aviación HA-1112 Buchón. Ever since the 1969 Hollywood epic Battle of Britain (story, P. 44), these perpetual adversaries have been kept flying to awe crowds at airshows and to be ready to dogfight again the next time a World War II movie project comes around, most recently 2017’s Dunkirk.
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