Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054

The legend that is the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft began in March 1936 when the prototype, then called simply the Type 300, flew for the first time at Eastleigh Aerodrome, now Southampton Airport. This is my depiction of that first airframe, K5054, shortly afterwards during test flights at the hands of the Vickers chief pilot, Joseph "Mutt" Summers.

Anyone who has researched it will know that debate continues to this day as to quite what shade of blue, grey or green it was painted. I am not going to join in.