This morning I was tempted by yet another YouTube video about the Spitfire. That led me to discover the Imperial War Museum’s new video series Duxford in Depth that includes videos on the:



And there are more on the IWM YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/imperialwarmuseums/videos.

As an extra I learnt of a six-part documentary series on Channel 5 Secrets of the Imperial War Museum. I’m off to view episode 1 on my5.

And Joe Smith? Well, he gets mentioned as having led the Spitfire design and development team throughout WWII having taken over after the death of R J Mitchell in June 1937.