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Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Spitfire: The People’s Plane

The Shilling factor

Duration: 18 minutes

on BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

Available for over a year

As brilliant as the Spitfire is, it has one major flaw. The solution lies with the fastest woman in Britain: champion motorcycle racer and pioneering engineer, Beatrice Shilling. Show more

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