Yes, the spitfire was certainly a work of art, with its pleasing lines and dimensions; although of course that wasn't the main consideration of its designers.

Interestingly, if I'd been alive during the war, and at high and constant risk of invasion and occupation from an evil dictatorship, I wouldn't have cared one jot - at the time - how racist, misogynist or otherwise unpleasant any of the spitfire pilots were, as long as they were good at their job!