Speedy Spit.

Hi guys,

Just sign in because I always loved this Spitfire, one day I want to build one in scale 1/5.
Some of the pictures here I’ve never seen and I love that three view.

Another of my favorit racers is the H1b from Hughes.

Thanks
Tom

G’ day all formite’s, hope your all as well as ya can be!

Awesome stuff guy’s 😀 .

Very interesting tid bit’s, and yes that big pic must be a challenge to colour.
BUT please keep on trying mate! 🙂

One MAD Spit hey!

I think it looked a bit more butch :rolleyes: , not so much like the beautiful graceful killer we all love so much.

Still she would be an interesting rebuild, if someone gave it a go.

Just for something different in remembering the Spitfire’s long history 😉 , standard new build inside of course, for safe operation, and C of A.

Just an almost living examlpe for people to see again 😮 , of an extinct Spit!

Now I must have a good gig around the forum 🙂 , Just been donated a newer reco computer(than me ten year old hag) from Mission Australia 😎 .

Life wize,
It’s still SSDD for me, M.S. stable, but have finally managed to put on 4/5kilos in 6 month’s, the Coeliac’s almost in check, but it’s all about every blooody thing, that goe’s to ya gut’s, you stuff it, you pay big again.
Gangway to the royal throne :rolleyes: .

Ciao

K9834 wasn’t much use as a PR machine due to its reduced fuel tankage, as I recall.

Absolutely correct – it was not used in an operational capacity but was allocated to successive CO’s as their personal “hack” aircraft. That is why it survived so long.

JQ said in his correspondence that as a/c no 47 it would probably have seen service in the Battle of Britain if it had not been selected for HSS conversion.

He also said it suffered a Cat E accident which led to its eventual demise but I have no details of that.

K9834 wasn’t much use as a PR machine due to its reduced fuel tankage, as I recall.

I’ve just dug out some correspondence that I had with Jeffrey Quill in 1980, he subsequently wrote me a three page article on the High Speed Spitfire for “Vintage Aircraft” magazine – which I was publishing and editing at the time.

Jeffrey refered to the colour scheme as “special royal blue with a silver cheat line”. The paint was applied by coachbuilders from the Rolls-Royce car company shortly after the first flight – which was made by “Mutt” Summers on 10 November 1938. The paint scheme consisted of 16 coats, each individually rubbed down by hand to give a completely smooth surface finish.

Photos that I had at the time (passed on to JQ) show the delineation of blue to silver following the leading edge of the wing, upper wing blue, lower wing silver. Negative Nos 18009 and 18010 from the “Flight” photo library show the details particularly clearly.

JQ flew N.17 for 10 minutes on 14 December for “speed trials” and again on January 4, 13, 24, February 12, 16, 17, 25 and March 6.

The pilot designated for the World Record attempt was to have been Sqdn Ldr H. “Bruin” Purvis, he was based at Farnborough but used to fly down to Eastleigh to fly N.17. JQ would warm up N.17 whilst “Bruin” was flying down in the early morning and after a high-speed run would take him back to his house in Burseldon for breakfast.

“Bruin” flew N.17 to Farnborough on 8 March 1939 and it remained there for a short period before returning to Eastleigh.

With the raising of the WSR by Fritz Wendel and a top speed of only 408 mph Supermarines decided the only way to up the speed was a reduction in drag by eliminating the radiator and converting the top fuel tank into a coolant tank cum condenser, it was calculated that there would be just enough coolant to complete a run before it boiled off.

Work was completed and JQ taxied out for a test flight on the new system on 30 April 1940. After 100 yds the cockpit was enveloped in steam and some very expensive noises were emanating from “under the bonnet”. He shut down immediately and N.17 was towed back to the hangar, never to fly again in its record-breaking form.

On conversion to K9834 (it had been Spitfire No.47 off the line) it was fitted with a Merlin 12 driving a constant-speed prop, a PRU windscreen was fitted, the paint scheme retained and it was allocated to the PRU at Benson where it was flown by successive CO’s including Wg Cdr Geoffrey Tuttle, Gp Capt David Waghorn and Air Cdr John Boothman. It was also flown by Flt Lt Neil Wheeler. All of these officers went on to distinguished careers retiring with high ranks.

A page I’ve found with a three-view of the Speed Spit.

Speed Spitfire

Gold cheat line

I found a little as to why people have said the cheatline was gold..seems when they repainted N17 to K9834 colours the cheatline bled thru as a diffrent colour than the original..(yellow brown).

The livery..(colours) of the orginal cup winner the Supermarine SB-6 was Blue and silver..and some schools think that the second shot at the worlds record followed the same colours..and that makes a certain amount of logic to me..forinstance..the underside of the wings was the same colour as the cheatline..would they paint the underside gold?..

I will dig deeper..somewhere out there is the answer..

N17 speed spitfire build

The beginings of the speed spitfire RC model..

now all I need to do is figure out how to take better pictures..lol

these are the tailfeathers to the spit..as I build..I will post..

Give this one a try – It may be a bit fuzzy but it has visible rivet/fastener lines

Not sure of the scale but with a few measurements and a little research, it should be easy to figure out.

JJ.

ahh best so far..Rivet lines are a little fuzzy BUT they are there. Thanks.

Give this one a try – It may be a bit fuzzy but it has visible rivet/fastener lines

Not sure of the scale but with a few measurements and a little research, it should be easy to figure out.

JJ.

ok.. I have a question. does anyone have any detailed three view drawings of a MKI that shows panel/rivet placement ?? the more detailed the better.

Do bears crap in the woods?! 😀

they do over here In British Columbia 🙂 actualy..they crap just where they want to..when they want to.

I have been doing a lot of researh on this beutifull aircraft and the underside is silver as well as the “cheat line”/lightning bolt. now if only I could find out what “regal blue” actualy looks like. I am building a scale RC aircraft of that bird and will post pisctures here as it comes about if you would like.

Thanks for the info – looks as though I did the “cheat line” gold instead of silver – sure I read it was gold though.

I used this link to get the “Regal Blue” colour Regal Blue

I am building a scale RC aircraft of that bird and will post pisctures here as it comes about if you would like.

Do bears crap in the woods?! 😀

Hi there, did anyone ever confirm what the underside of this bird looked like? Colours etc.

Thanks

I have been doing a lot of researh on this beutifull aircraft and the underside is silver as well as the “cheat line”/lightning bolt. now if only I could find out what “regal blue” actualy looks like. I am building a scale RC aircraft of that bird and will post pisctures here as it comes about if you would like.

Colorize

I have been working on colorizing (sp?) this picture on and off over the last year. Will try and post progress so far.

Not bad at all, in my humble opinion. 🙂

Thanks Daz 🙂

Not bad at all, in my humble opinion. 🙂

Well I went ahead and gave it a bare metal underside as i’m sure someone mentioned that this was the case and it certainly looks to be that way from the real pictures available – hope you like it.

Yeah guys, I have no control over the dimensions of the 3d model as it cannot be altered – I am just making a paint scheme for the existing model.

Any info about my question on the colour of the underside?