posted 09-19-2003 07:05 PM            

The stamp pane "resides" on a specially commissioned full canvas acrylic oil painting
that I had done for me that portrays the Spitfire,Mitchell and the MIR Space Station.

Sq.Ldr Brown was one of the two guests at a Spitfire Restoration Fund Raising Evening here in the UK Midlands last night. His recollections of his Spitfire days were very illuminating and very very interesting.

Phill
UK

posted 09-20-2003 07:45 AM            

Yes, you are quite right "RJ" was born in a small village called Butt Lane in the 'Potteries' (A plaque on the house where he was born si stillthere).

I went to primary school at Butt Lane in the early 50s and the school was renamed to the Reginald Mitchell Primary School while I was there.The day it was renamed they had a small squadron of Spitfire's fly past and Johnny Johnson (Spitfire pilot) came along. The school still has some items of Spitfire on show including letters from Mitchell,
Johnson and Douglas Bader.

I flew the stamp because I was educated in Butt Lane and my great uncle Bob taught Mitchell science when he went school in Hanley - not far from Butt Lane.

I did a space talk to the kids at the RJ school a few years back and showed them the flown stamp.