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??? - Spitfire: Simply Superb /Warbirds/ (3)
The Spitfire I X4857 soon after its arrival in Portugal early in 1943.
"Пятерки" 335-й греческой эскадрильи на аэродроме Хассани
A line-up of tropicalised Spitfire VBs in service with the Greek Air Force in 1945.
A Spitfire VB serving with the USAAF’s 496th Fighter Training Group at Goxhill in 1944.
A Spitfire LF Mk IXE in service with the Turkish Air Force.
Spitfire F Mk XVIEs in service with No 322 Squadron, manned by Dutch personnel, in Europe after the D-Day landings.
Spitfire F Mk XVIEs in service with No 322 Squadron, manned by Dutch personnel, in Europe after the D-Day landings.
Spitfire VIII A58-465 of Australian-manned No 457 Squadron in August 1944
Personnel of the Australian-manned No 457 Squadron at Sattler in February 1945, showing shark's teeth insignia on the Spitfire VIII.
The Mk VIII MT818 converted by Supermarine to the prototype Spitfire Trainer.
An FR Mk XVIII of No 32 Squadron.
A Spitfire IX with guns removed, wings clipped and an oblique camera fitted, operating with No 60 Squadron of the South African Air Force.
Spitfire FR Mk XIV with clipped wings and rear-view hood.
An F Mk XIV of No 2 Squadron in 1945 modified to carry an oblique camera.
The first of the Griffon-engined Spitfires, DP845, in its earliest Mk IV configuration, with a Griffon IIB, retractable tailwheel, underwing flap brackets and standard wing. In this guise, it was later fitted with a mock-up of six wing cannon.
The Mk IV/20 DP845 with the "C” wing armament and enlarged rudder.
One of the six airframes used in development of the Spitfire XIV is shown here. JF318 in initial configuration with a Mk VIII tail unit.
One of the six airframes used in development of the Spitfire XIV is shown here. JF319 with increased fin area
Effectively the Mk XII prototype, DP845 finally flew with clipped wing tips.
One of the six airframes used in development of the Spitfire XIV is shown here. JF321 with Griffon 85 and contra-prop.
An early production Spitfire XII, with fixed tailwheel and standard wing;
An experimental Spitfire F Mk XIV with rear-view hood
"Спитфайр" XII с подвешенной под фюзеляжем бомбой
A production example of the later Spitfire XII, with bomb on the fuselage centreline. Note the clipped wings, enlarged rudder and retractable tailwheel.
A Spitfire F Mk XIV in SW Pacific markings
The prototype DP851 as the Mk 21 prototype, showing the extended, pointed, wing tips and four-bladed propeller.
The first production Mk 21 with a similar extended wing but the definitive tail unit and five-bladed propeller.
View of the Mk 21 prototype PP139 with definitive wing and pointed wing tips
A post-war photograph of one of the few Spitfire F Mk 21s with a contra-prop.
The prototype SX549, completed in 1944 as a Mk 21 with rear-view hood.
Stripped of its camouflage after the end of the war, this Spitfire F Mk 22 shows the definitive tail unit
Supermarine Spitfire 21
The sole Spitfire IX converted - by Folland Aircraft - to be the last of the Spitfire floatplanes.
One of Folland's Spitfire VB conversions that operated from the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt at the end of 1943.