It would be possible but you have to take into account many issues not only aerodynamics but also visual cueing. For air to air refuelling, the receiver pilot needs to position the aircraft very accurately to make contact (especially the case with probe & drogue, boom and receptacle still needs precision, though the boomer has a reasonably hard job too!). To aid the receiver pilot there are various things like line up markings etc to help him/her. Same goes for landing on a bucking/pitching/heaving/rolling ship. Things could help, like a hook arrangement so pilot could get it into a ‘window’ and then be ‘grabbed’. Various airshow acts have seen aircraft be released from camper vans and then land back on….I guess the short answer is where there is a will…..
Then you need a risk assessement!!

I tinker with them too!!!

Last time I said how lovely P9374 is and authentic/painstaking she is, some troll asked for a bucket!!
It is kinda weird that (in general) purists/pedants who would, you think, be most pleased with P9374’s accuracy are the critics! There’s no pleasing some people!

Andy, one thing you could try (I will if I have time) is look at photos from the Hendon New Types Park as the placards were RAF produced I think. I have one showing the Spitfire prototype and it has just ‘Spitfire’ which, I guess it would. In the recent past (40 years+) all ‘new’ aircraft into the RAF have been given a Mk1 on first entry (or derivation of…say HC1 or HC Mk1 or HC MK 1′. It will be difficult to know the ‘correct’ derivation/terminology!!! Even nowadays, some docs use 2 or 3 different terminolgies in even just one document!!! Though ‘Mark’ is rarely used….Mk being usual!

So what bargains did you all buy?!