Spitfire
Spitfire is a WWII movie that illustrates the importance of making fighter planes to keep up with the war. The title spitfire comes from the name of a famous fighter plane that doubled the speed of the old planes and had eight guns on it. It could rise to 10,000 feet quickly and could dive like an eagle without its wings breaking off. Spitfire was the first plane that only had one wing on each side, the rest had two wings on each side because they flew better at low speeds.
At the beginnig of the movie they are at a competition to see how fast peoples' home made planes could fly in a barrel race. Whos' ever plane won the competiton got the chance for their plane to become the main plane in the air force of Great Britan. Since Great Britan was in the allied forces they could sell their idea to the other countries that were in the allied forces like the U.S. The guy that thought about making a plane with only one wing on each side thought about a bird when he was drawing it up.
Everyone said it would never work so he couldn't get the money to build it, so he told them to think it over again. When he finally got the grant to build the plane he was very happy so at the next competition he had a his mechanic race it and he went unconscious. The plane plunged into the water and was ruined but the guy lived that was flying it. This made the inventer of the plane kind of mad so he would stay at work really late to make the design better and his wife was really worried about him.
The inventor went to the doctor and he only had 8 months to live because of his excesive work. He only had twelve months to make a plane so he told them he would make it in eight years. When he finished it they took it to the competition and got half the time of the other planes and they had way more fire power on it. They called it Spitfire because it just spits the bullets out really fast.
On their first mission with Spitfire planes they rode up at 10,000 feet and came down and attacked the enemy from the top and they took down triple the planes and none of the spitfires got touched. The Spitfire plane can go over 400 miles per hour and is very strong so it can take that speed.
I kind of liked that movie because it was the first black and white movie I have ever watched and I like planes.
Comments
Way to watch an old WWII movie!! Well done!