Understanding The Engineering Of The Spitfire | Inside The Spitfire Factory

In this weeks episode, the Spitfire Factory team gets its newly built fuselage off to the paint shop, we find out how wings can be either restored or built from scratch. We also see owner Peter Monk gear up for a family holiday like no other, as he and his boys travel in World War 2 jeeps to the beaches of Normandy to celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and we also see the restoration of the long-forgotten cousin of the Spitfire: the Hawker Typhoon.
Hidden away in a little-known workshop at one of Britain's most important wartime airbases, a team of dedicated engineers and enthusiasts are working round the clock to bring a national icon back to life. Over the course of a year and £2 million at stake, there's no room for error as Peter Monk and his engineers try to turn a 1943 Mark IX Spitfire from rusty remains into the flying legend. This is the Spitfire Factory.
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[@GarageBandSuperheros]

To see the paratroopers jump reenactment was a beautiful touching sight. Thank you to all you veterans out there and those if they're watching. Both my American grandfathers were Navy at the time of World War II. But every soldier had a family, soo many families never got to start. I am glad I stumbled across this film.

[@jphilb]

Underrated show! Love these.

[@allamatech]

Old Is Always Gold... if You agree thumbs up !

[@duanehill4911]

I had no idea that there was still a Spitfire factory. What a great and wonderful thing!

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Not sure it qualifies as a factory, it’s really just a restoration shop. There’s a couple similar in the US doing P-51 Mustang components. There’s a rather large V-12 shop in California that rebuilds Allison and Rolls Royce Merlin engines as well. There’s a really good number of Mustangs flying in the world because of them.
Sadly, there’s not many flying Spits in the US but if you have the chance to see, hear and feel one, take it.

[@alanhodge984]

wonderful!!

[@theravedaddy]

The typhoon segment was a bonus! Very little info around on those aircraft.

[@Honeydew0567]

agreed, definitely wish there was more information about those amazing aircraft and there successor the Tempest series of aircraft, from the very few accounts and documentaries I've found most pilots reckon they were the rolls Royce's of the air, they did everything the typhoon could do but just a lot better and even were some of the few aircraft to be able to out pace a V1 bomb, so it never really saw any fighter involvement other than defense of England and ground attack roll in Europe

[@ericwilkinson9447]

Awesome Brent 😎 👍

[@graemejwsmith]

@15:09 - Not a Barrel Roll. An Aileron or Axial Roll.

[@dakotadennett6979]

15000 total rivets he replaces around half and has 65000 left to replace lol. I had to go back and listen again

[@user-pv6vi6xq6d]

less we forget.

[@robertcgage]

To bad much of this is lost to the current [non-British] population of GB.

[@ALA-uv7jq]

Not much about Spitfire engineering. All about how Britain won the war. Yawn!