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October 4, 2004 at 7:13 pm in reply to: Spitfire 18s #1410938

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Just to keep the ball rolling. 2 images from the old Arco-Aircam Series “Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XII-24” book

Dan

October 4, 2004 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Spitfire 18s #1411140

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Top image from “Spitfire-Flying Legend” by Dibbs & Holmes

Bottom image from “Spitfire at War” by Alfred Price

Both 32 Squadron Spit 18s

Dan

October 4, 2004 at 6:30 am in reply to: A (hopefully) More Difficult Cockpit Challenge #1412162

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Gotta be the MN Air Guard Museum F102. I did an awful lot of sanding on the wing of that baby before they painted it.

Dan
And no this Dan Johnson is not that Dan Johnson so I’m not answering my own question 🙂

October 3, 2004 at 7:12 pm in reply to: Hurricane ID #1413008

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Air Britains RAF Aircraft KA100-KZ999 gives KX857 as one of a batch of 1455 Hurricane IIB, IIC, IID, and IVs delivered from Hawkers Kingston and Langley factorys between 11/1942 and 5/1943, noting that it went to the Middle East and that there was No Further Trace.

Flood

That no further trace being it’s move to the USAAF 345th squadron as a hack no doubt 🙂

Thanks for the info

Dan

October 3, 2004 at 8:58 am in reply to: Hurricane ID #1414018

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Wow! That was fast. Fascinating conversions those two seat kites 🙂 Now I wonder if anyone has the record card for it floating around to track down the units it was with previously and if it notes being SOC or given to the 345th at some point.

One of the 345th pilots lives not too far from me and is a friend. He used to fly that two seat Hurri all the time. He dropped in at a Spit base on one occasion and the CO offered to trade him a Spit for it. As he was only a Flight Officer at the time, he said he didn’t have the authority to do so. When he got back to base and told his CO, the CO couldn’t believe he didn’t make the deal! 🙂

He also took it up with the Squadron Doc when Mt. Vesuvius went up. They cruised over the top taking photos.

Dan

October 3, 2004 at 8:39 am in reply to: Hurricane ID #1414025

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A close up of the two seat configuration. The beaten up appearance is similar to the other Hurricane photo

Dan

September 30, 2004 at 9:27 am in reply to: Crazymainer US Navy Quiz #2 #1419825

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Since no one is playing. Thought I’d take a crack at one

4th down the R3C-3 Racer?

Dan

September 30, 2004 at 8:32 am in reply to: Who shot down Douglas Bader-After The Battle #1419994

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Hmmm. I tried the search thinking that I must have missed this stuff somewhere. Found one small thread that didn’t go into detail. Touchy subject by chance?

Dan

September 30, 2004 at 6:34 am in reply to: I know they're only R/C, but… #1420021

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I remember way back seeing an RC Spit XII and it was right on the money in terms of the look. If you’d have photographed it like the one above you couldn’t have said for sure if it was the real deal or not.

OF course I found this site after I posted first. Spit XII, IX and Hurricane. The XII leaves a bit to be desired but the others look really nice

http://www.clarkindustries.on.ca/spitsxii.html

Dan

September 29, 2004 at 8:09 pm in reply to: One for the 'Merlins over Malta' boys #1420908

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When does the book with your photo collection come out Mark12? It would be like looking into a gold mine for many of us 🙂

Dan

September 29, 2004 at 5:16 am in reply to: 5 bladed Rotol prop #1423101

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Weren’t Jablo blades used often. And weren’t they a composite material? Seems like Spits used lots of Jablo blades

Dan

September 29, 2004 at 5:08 am in reply to: Crazymainers US Navy Quiz #1423104

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Third one down is a Naval Aircraft Factory P-9-1 Flying Boat.

Top one a Top one a Curtiss AH3?

Dan

September 28, 2004 at 11:28 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1423407

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“Yellow nosed *******s coming down now!”

Break right and climb!

Dan

September 28, 2004 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Spitfire camouflage question #1423411

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Trails scheme “A” applied to Spit I X4815. This was done in April 1941 at AFDU in cooperation with RAE while they were trying to come up with schemes that would be good camouflage for day fighters at all altitudes as well as good camo on the ground. There were three other Trail schemes done as well. Spit I X4815 and X4816 were used in the trials.

Info from an article in “Quarter Scale Modeler-Spitfire Special”

Dan

September 27, 2004 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Boeing SB-17 Flying Fortress #1426154

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Found this photo in Roger Freeman’s “The Mighty Eighth”

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