Great pics + errors (Spitfires included)

I didn’t mean the number of cannon, but the wing design.

Voytech,

Thanks for putting me in place in such a polite way :p

Over to the experts again. 😎

Cees

okay – another one in the same serial range –

Martin

VoyTech, Martin,

Referring to ‘Spitfire International’.

JK664 was a F.Vc Trop

All the F.Vb Trop aircraft listed to Turkey are in the serial ranges EP x1 and ER x8.

Blown up, the pixallation is heavy. It that isn’t a ‘K’, I would suggest an ‘R’

It could therefore be a very risky ER481 at a pinch.

Mark

That’s an EN-serial…. looks like EN896 – but I don’t have books here to check individual serials…

No EN-serialled Mk Vs at all. The only Mk VBs with serials starting with an E were: EP195, EP258, ER277, ER319, ER476, ER481, ER590, ER622, ER643, ER661, ER810, ER938, ER985, ES359.

Perhaps they have taken out a cannon out of each wing to save weight. A common practise I understand.

I didn’t mean the number of cannon, but the wing design.

VCs were, if I remember correctly, rarely fitted with four cannon.

They’d have no need to remove anything, and I doubt removing the outer cannon stub would be much in the way of beneficial.

Perhaps they have taken out a cannon out of each wing to save weight. A common practise I understand.

HTH

Cees

That’s an EN-serial…. looks like EN896 – but I don’t have books here to check individual serials…..

Martin

JK664 is my best shot, but I am not 100%

Mark, yes it looks like JK-something to me, but all JK-serialled Spitfires delivered to Turkey were Mk VCs (this is clearly a Mk VB) delivered later (Turkish numbers in 57-range). A puzzle…

Cool, isn’t it? Now, it seems like the RAF serial in the usual DAF small size characters on the rear fuselage. Who can read it?

Voy Tech,

JK664 is my best shot, but I am not 100%

Mark

Guys I might not know the differance between the Spit Types But I do know that this isn’t a P-40 😮

http://www.tuaf.mil.tr/public/fotograflar/UcakBuyukFoto.asp?adres=PUBLICFOTOGRAFLARimagesCURTISS%20KITTYHAWK&dosya=curtis.jpg

It appears to be a MkV am I right 😉

Cool, isn’t it? Now, it seems like the RAF serial in the usual DAF small size characters on the rear fuselage. Who can read it?

I can’t enlarge the thumbnails, like JDK

On my computer it is the difference between Netscape and Explorer. The site seems to have been created with only the MS product in mind.

Also thanks CM/Rob for the offer. ‘Baklava Yeppie’ – that sounds Turkish, Cypriot or Greek and a Zillion calories.

Mark

Mark12,

I make it with a Greek Recipte 😀

Did you get my e-mail on David T. Stuka Question

Dave thanks

Cheers
RER

PV140 was probably photographed in Britain, as the picture appears in many old publications including (IIRC) the stalwart Aircam. It was sold to Turkey but the ferry flight was unsuccessful and the aircraft ended up at Brindisi. It was eventually taken on charge by the Italian Air Force at Lecce on 19 May 1949, becoming MM.4286.
The same occurred to RK803, which became MM.4287, but for which no photo seem to have emerged so far.
Prints or very high resolution photos of either Spit very welcome!

Veltro

That Mk I Spitfire looks like a very early model, doesn’t it? Two blade prop, and flat canopy hood. Plus the exhausts are odd.

Dave,

It is the Prototype K5054, most probably at Eastleigh.

Mark

That Mk I Spitfire looks like a very early model, doesn’t it? Two blade prop, and flat canopy hood. Plus the exhausts are odd.

Here you go Mark

Dave,

Many thanks.

There are some very interesting and new shots here. Turkish Spitfire photos, like Turkish Spitfires 😉 , are a bit thin on the ground.

Also thanks CM/Rob for the offer. ‘Baklava Yeppie’ – that sounds Turkish, Cypriot or Greek and a Zillion calories.

Mark

Here you go Mark

The “Spitfire MkIX” is clearly a typo – it’s a XIX.

Hey Mk12

No problem if you like I can do this when I get home and send i to them via a e-mail. I’m off to work for the day got to make some Baklavia Yeppie :p

Cheers
RER

Ok Now,

Guys I might not know the differance between the Spit Types But I do know that this isn’t a P-40 😮

http://www.tuaf.mil.tr/public/fotograflar/UcakBuyukFoto.asp?adres=PUBLICFOTOGRAFLARimagesCURTISS%20KITTYHAWK&dosya=curtis.jpg

It appears to be a MkV am I right 😉

Cheers
RER

Rob,

I can’t enlarge the thumbnails, like JDK, but find I can access the ‘Curtis’ from your post.

Can you please post up the other ‘Spitfire’ shots as ….wait for it… I want to ‘right click’ and save what are some fascinating shots that have been uncovered here.

Thanks.

Mark