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Spitfire IXb

Hello chaps.

I was checking Spitfire : The History to see wether IXs had b wings or not. As far as I could see they did have b wings on IXs as MH434 show.

Can anyone tell me more about the subject? :confused:

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By: Olivier Lacombe - 1st December 2004 at 23:50

Good show Daz!

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By: DazDaMan - 1st December 2004 at 22:34

AHA! Found the pic on another thread!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23066&page=2&pp=30&highlight=piece+cake

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By: Olivier Lacombe - 30th November 2004 at 14:13

Good show Daz!

You know we’re always interested by :

– Spitifire pictures
– Buchรณn pictures
– Girlie pictures

:rolleyes: ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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By: DazDaMan - 30th November 2004 at 08:56

Well, it’s not the same one, but I trawled it out anyway!

I think you can just see the four “gun ports” in the leading edge of the port wing. Whether they were put there by accident or by design, who can tell?

First pic from: http://www.militaryairshows.net/galld2.htm

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By: DazDaMan - 30th November 2004 at 08:49

As a side note, I just had a quick read of the thread and saw that the “Universal” wing could have carried the four Brownings – two in the “normal” position, and two where the cannon would be.

It’s interesting as I have a photo from a calendar of the CAF’s Spitfire IX MK297, minus cannons, but with machine-gun ports in exactly those positions!!

If anyone’s interested, I’ll trawl it out.

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By: Dan Johnson - 30th November 2004 at 08:03

That was a great discussion. Nice when everyone walks away having learned something and contributed too ๐Ÿ™‚

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By: Olivier Lacombe - 29th November 2004 at 16:54

Ok, thanks, that’s what I thought!

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By: Bruce - 29th November 2004 at 16:25

Olivier,

Try this thread, which we had considerable fun with earlier in the year:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=20000

Bruce

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