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Spitfire Groundcrew Under Fire HC25 Inside Lonely Planet'sBest in TravelSo often it is daring, even dashing, exploits of the fighter pilots which attract the most interest. Theirs is, indisputably, the glory but not theirs alone. For it is the groundcrew who kept the aircraft in the sky who deservedly share in that glory. The bond between pilots and their groundcrew was often an immensely powerful one. Each day they took to the sky the pilots put their lives in the hands of the fitters to keep their engines at maximum