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January 9, 2009 at 10:27 am in reply to: Spitfire Mk I, II and IIa's – Prop fittings #1168440

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This to me is N3295 of 222 Sqn. On 31 May P/O G Davies landed wheels down and taxied to the dunes before setting the Spitfire on fire.

January 8, 2009 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Spitfire Mk I, II and IIa's – Prop fittings #1169555

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To my certain knowledge only wooden bladed Rotol prop assemblies have ever been found on early mark Spitfire wrecks, or, as to be expected, the metal blades on the more usual DeHavilland props as per the Mk I.

How many of those wooden-blade Rotol recoveries do you mean?
Looking through quite a lot of photos of crashed Spitfires (isn’t ebay great even if the only thing you can afford are those low res previews?) I have not found a single Rotol-propeller Mk I/IIs with broken (i.e. wooden) blades that could be dated at before 1942. They all seem to be bent (i. e. metal) in 1940/41.

January 8, 2009 at 11:41 am in reply to: Spitfire Mk I, II and IIa's – Prop fittings #1169579

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Al Deere’s Spitfire on Dunkirk beach. Rotol propeller. Metal blades.

January 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm in reply to: Spitfire Mk I, II and IIa's – Prop fittings #1170338

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Spitfires were fitted with Dowty/Rotol propellor assemblies – ie wooden blades.

I think the question is posed in a confusing manner. Rotol propellers were first fitted to a number of No. 54 Sqn Mk Is in the spring of 1940 and these were used operationally over Dunkirk. But these early Rotol propellers had metal blades. I don’t think wooden blades were used in opertional service before Mk V Spitfires.

December 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1204312

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It reads 1-20 down the left hand column headed ‘Number’ in Burmese then UB410-UB425 down the second column headed ‘Registration number’ in Burmese.

Looks more like UB401-UB420 to me.

November 14, 2008 at 9:33 am in reply to: Polish pilot Josef Huk #1223293

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It is also possible that the man in question was a pilot during the war under an original Polish name which proved too complicated for the British and he had it abbreviated to Huk after the war. If that’s a family member you’re talking to, is there any chance the family might have any document(s) related to his service? If his service no. could be identified this would make things easier.

November 13, 2008 at 10:34 am in reply to: Polish pilot Josef Huk #1224229

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If he was Polish, his first name would be spelt JOZEF. It seems no such man served with the WW2 Polish Air Force. There was a pilot named Jozef Hajduk, and a pilot named Pawel Hur, and a flight engineer named Edward Huk, but no pilot (or any other trade) named Jozef Huk.
However, with this name he could easily be Czech or Slovak.

October 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Question Re: Al Deere's Kiwi's…for Mark12 Perhaps?? #1174353

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Don’t forget Rotol constant-speed propeller with blunt spinner.

October 3, 2008 at 12:25 pm in reply to: 'New' Spitfire/Seafire Query #1189024

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P9373 – the ex-Time Team recovered Spitfire of Sgt Paul Klipsch. Interesting!
P9374 – the Calais beach recovered Spitfire of F/O Peter Cazenove and now with John Romain at Duxford.
All that is needed is P9372 to complete the set! Not impossible. 😉

Or P9375. Which would expand the ex-222 Sqn mafia even further. Speaking of which, AR614 and BL614 are another interesting coincidence.

September 29, 2008 at 11:59 am in reply to: A Spitfire For Six #1193448

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MV-O or MV-D – 53 OTU aircraft. I love the fuselage roundel proportions.

September 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm in reply to: "Spitfire" crash info sought #1203657

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Sgt Zygmunt Kowalski, killed in the crash.

September 3, 2008 at 2:48 pm in reply to: "Spitfire" crash info sought #1221462

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The code of W3569 was SZ-E

September 3, 2008 at 11:20 am in reply to: Spitfire Odds-n-Ends #1221650

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Actually none of thse came from footnote. Everytime I try and download a photo from their site my computer goes bonkers:eek:
Oscar Coen gave me the shot of the 4th FG Spit getting an engine change.
The others came from a trip to the National Archives (many but not all can be found on footnote) while looking for AAF Spit shots. I do have a few others if your interested ie Eagle Sqd, 31st FG and few 52nd FG and 126 (?) squadron shots.

Sorry, I should have said it was my guess. I have seen all of these photos, except that of the French Captain, there, so I assumed that was where they came from.

September 2, 2008 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Spitfire Odds-n-Ends #1222467

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John Rawlings in his tome ‘Fighter Squadrons’ drew his data from the Squadron ORB’s. He lists MK629 as being with 154 Squadron whose unit code was HT.

I’m sure I have seen another picture (colour one, perhaps) of the same aeroplane where the serial number was visible and it was indeed MK629.

September 1, 2008 at 11:47 am in reply to: Spitfire Odds-n-Ends #1223836

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Spitfire Mk IX 601 Sqd (?) s/n MH_29

154 Sqn in Corsica prior to Southern France landings

Spitfire MKVbTrops being serviced in Italy 1944

More like Mk VCs. That’s Yugoslav ground crew training IIRC.

Spitfire Mk IX MH869 Polish Squadron

No. 302 ‘City of Poznan’ Squadron

Does any body know what the lighter colour patches are on all three Spit’s just forward of the tails?

Gas patches, presumably

May I be so bold as to ask where you came across them?

http://www.footnote.com

but it was serial number BR498 Got a image of this one in your collection?

That’s the one in the first photo in this thread
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