I read your leader
‘A celebration of innovation’(Comment, 16 January) with some interest, but I was amused that you referred to Spitfire and Hurricane designers as ‘aerospace engineers’.
At that time, I think the Nazis had the only engineers that could be so described, as we were to discover on 8 September, 1944, when the first operational V2 descended on Chiswick.
A great magazine — fascinating as always.
Tim Perry
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