--- title: Britain's New "Spitfire" url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-britains-new-spitfire-cutaway-1939/ description: A colour cutaway of a Spitfire shows engine, guns and pilot, with 37 numbered parts and a text box giving speed, climb rate and dimensions. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Britain's New "Spitfire" [![Britain's New "Spitfire", 1939 UK poster: A colour cutaway of a Spitfire shows engine, guns and pilot, with 37 numbered parts](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-britains-new-spitfire-cutaway-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-britains-new-spitfire-cutaway-1939.jpg) # Britain's New "Spitfire" A colour cutaway of a Spitfire shows engine, guns and pilot, with 37 numbered parts and a text box giving speed, climb rate and dimensions. It is mainly technical and informational; the tell for card-stacking is the selection of favourable performance figures with no comparison aircraft, and the closing line that 'Achtung Schpitfeuer' are the last words many a Nazi airman will hear. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` BRITAIN'S NEW "SPITFIRE" With an even more powerful Rolls-Royce "Merlin" engine, the "Spitfire" enters the lists again, re-engined and re-armed. It is now armed with two cannon and four machine guns. The official speed of "Spitfire I" was over 366 m.p.h. at 18,500 feet. The rate of initial climb was 2,300 feet per minute. Points in "Spitfire" design are its all-metal construction, stressed metal covering, outwards retracting undercarriage. Fixed tail wheel, radiator under starboard wing, are other points. Wingspan is 36 feet 10 inches; height, 11 feet 5 inches. The Supermarine "Spitfire I" was evolved from the seaplane which won the Schneider Trophy, for the third successive time and outright in 1931. "Achtung Schpitfeuer" are still the last words many a Nazi airman will hear. 1 METAL-COVERED WINGS 2 CANNON 3 THREE-BLADED CONSTANT-SPEED AIR SCREW 4 TANK 5 ROLLS-ROYCE "MERLIN" ENGINE 6 EXHAUSTS 7 OIL TANK 8 ENGINE BEARERS 9 CARBURETTOR AIR INTAKE 10 SUPERCHARGER 11 FIREPROOF BULKHEAD 12 RETRACTED UNDERCARRIAGE (STARBOARD) 13 METAL RIBS 14 RADIATOR 15 MACHINE GUNS 16 AILERON 17 LOWER FUEL TANK 18 UPPER FUEL TANK (Total Fuel Load - 85 Gallons) 19 INSTRUMENT PANEL 20 CONTROL LEVER 21 FIRING TRIGGER 22 GUN SIGHT 23 MIRROR 24 SLIDING HOOD 25 UNDERCARRIAGE CONTROL HANDLE 26 LONGERON 27 BATTERY BOX 28 PARACHUTE FLARE 29 METAL RIBS 30 DITTY BOX 31 STRINGER 32 RADIO 33 AERIAL 34 FIN 35 RUDDER 36 ELEVATORS 37 TAIL WHEEL LENGTH 29 ft. 11 in. SPAN OF PLANES 36 ft. 10 in. ``` [← Britain's European Allies Attack in British Aircraft](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-britains-european-allies-attack-in-british-aircraft-1939/) [A British Anti-Aircraft Battery in Action →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-british-anti-aircraft-battery-in-action-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.