Full span wing now? Not clipped?

Surely it is Jeffrey Quill’s favourite. The Mk V with the short, low altitude, big engine.

The Mk XII. 🙂

Mark

I wouldn’t think there would even be any debate. Spit XII all the way 🙂

B17D the Swoose

Spit XII EN224 just because 🙂

Fantasy right?

Being 21 again, and heading out with the Tangmere Spit XII Wing on October 20, 1943 when they got 9 for no loss.

Present day?

Getting my hands on EN224 🙂

BlueRobin

CSheppardholedi has it right. The attack on Pearl Harbour turned it from “another European mess” into a war directly against the U.S.

In addition to his work with USAAF groups and the P-38, he also flew combat missions with USN or USMC flying Corsairs. I belive he was credited (or claimed) with a victory..unofficially.

FDR hated Lindbergh for his earlier political views and denied him a chance to serve in the active forces the same way that Jimmy Doolittle was called back from his Shell Oil position to lead the Tokyo raid.

Lindbergh’s kill was with the 475th flying 38s. He shot down a Sonia if I remember right. He was out there teaching pilot to get more range out of their birds. He flew with Jug drivers, P38s, Corsairs etc.

So why has MJ552 got a black spinner? Surely that’s a 2TAF identification marking introduced in Feb 1945……….;)

And what makes you think it should be red spinner/black codes, why not blue spinner/blue codes or also red spinner/ red codes…….:eek:

He was just playing with it a bit. They’re MTO Spits so the red spinner would be the standard fighter nose color.

Black would make the most sense for the codes.

I’ve got a few around here too, but Eagles International did a custom P51C for me. I have my wifes name for the nose art and September 44 markings with fuselage lower invastion stripes, black ID bands and red outlined QP-Z codes of the 334th FS, 4th FG. And of course the red nose.

It was a bit pricy but I figure it’s about as close as I’ll ever get to having my own warbird 🙂

Dan