FWIW, it's listed on the Palm Springs Air Museum website as a
"Supermarine Spitfire Mark XIV+"
On 1/9/2016 2:27 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
You are most likely much more correct than I am, Alan!
I really do have to get a book and study up on these aircraft. :-) I
connect to them on a visual and emotional level, and often look back
at the photos wondering more about the specific technical
information.
In 2005, I traveled in the UK and had occasion to visit the Tangmere
Military Aviation Museum near the south coast. I was shooting with
the Pentax *ist DS at that time and found this experimental,
prototype Spitfire in the museum there:
https://flic.kr/p/Cw9nHW
They sure were lovely planes!
G
On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:25 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote:
I think you mean Supermarine Spitfire, Godfrey! Supercharged 27L
V12 Rolls Royce Merlin/Griffon engines. When they changed the
exhausts to point backwards like that, the max velocity increased
by 30mph. A magnificent example.
Alan C
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