Always thought they were a ground power unit. The head and barrels would be square with a cowling bolted onto them. After the war they modified the head and barrel for the 500Triumph GP racer.
Thanks H87A-2, basically what I’m looking for is more about the aeroplane it’s self, technical etc, as opposed to squadron usage and history of that sort.
I saw him at Rendcombe in the early 90’s with his Harvard and his then girlfriend who is now his wife I presume. He seemed a very unassuming sort of chap by what I saw of him and his display was fine. As much as I remember it was not the best of days for display flying either, a fair old wind and low cloud base.
I went last night to see it with my 13 year old son, we both enjoyed it very much. One thing that puzzled me when the pilot was trying to get out of the ditched Spitfire was why did he ditch with canopy closed and secondly was there not a canopy release fitted to the early Mark Spitfires as per the later ones?
Also have you found yourself a decent beach landing shot yet Mark 12?
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