Spitfire at Reno Air Races

..needs American intervension to help make it the awesome racer it has become. I’d reckon a clipped winged Mk14 might just be able to keep up with the Merlin powered ’51’s but would never be a winning machine :diablo:

Surely, America needed British intervention to make the 51 a ‘winning machine’. How many Allison-powered Mustang racers are there? :diablo:

I’d reckon a clipped winged Mk14 might just be able to keep up with the Merlin powered ’51’s but would never be a winning machine :diablo:

LOL Yes Americans are good at making machines go fast in a straight line, but turning seems to escape them.

Because the Spitfire is just too awesome to have to prove itself by running around in circles… 😉

Gona have to disagree with you there, even the Sea Fury as good as it is needs American intervension to help make it the awesome racer it has become. I’d reckon a clipped winged Mk14 might just be able to keep up with the Merlin powered ’51’s but would never be a winning machine :diablo:

If it’s such a super aircraft how come someone hasn’t raced one?

Because the Spitfire is just too awesome to have to prove itself by running around in circles… 😉

So all in all 1 has never raced then? Why not? If it’s such a super aircraft how come someone hasn’t raced one? Didn’t Hinton build the Mk19 with contra props to race there?

Not raced at Reno but…from Vol.II

Mk XIV TZ138 was entered in the 1949 Ohio Air Races, finished in polished metal with red trim and the logo of Imperial Oil, McArthur. It qualified Race Number ’80’ at 370.110 mph and it took third place in the Tinnerman Trophy Race with an average speed of 359.565 mph, flown by Flt Lt McArthur, the aircraft being sponsored by Imperial Oil Ltd of Edmonton, Alberta

Mark

ps I am happy to be corrected but I think the MK XIX fitted with a Shack engine and cut down prop, PS890, was more a budget installation with with possible ‘time to height’ aspirations.

So all in all 1 has never raced then? Why not? If it’s such a super aircraft how come someone hasn’t raced one? Didn’t Hinton build the Mk19 with contra props to race there?

Didn’t Bruce Lockwood take NH749/G-MXIV there one year? I seem to remember a picture of it with race numbers on. Probably in one of jeremy Flack’s books. What happened to him?

He lives up in Tehachapi I think, He hangs out at Mojave airport.

Phoenix, Az, Races 1995, race numbers 9 & 14.

Tail chase ‘Pseudo racing’ show. 🙂

Mark

Didn’t Bruce Lockwood take NH749/G-MXIV there one year? I seem to remember a picture of it with race numbers on.

I remember seeing a pic of both NH749 and MA793 there – would have been about 1995-ish? ‘793 had a white number 9 applied around the fuselage roundel, and ‘749 had 14.

Didn’t Bruce Lockwood take NH749/G-MXIV there one year? I seem to remember a picture of it with race numbers on. Probably in one of jeremy Flack’s books. What happened to him?

SL271 from their website

Don’t think she raced though

Richard