Recent content by Alban

Hi, just a season greeting to all at the site. One of my favourite sites, just ask a question and get a great answer. Scrounge around the topics for interesting Gen on WW2 aircraft. Apreciate all the research etc that that entials. Seasonal cheers Alban

Thanks agian you folks a are a gold mine of Gen. Cheers Alabn

Great answer dude, evertything I wanted. I'm surprised about the eight gun armament being retianed but interestiing. Also surprised about the guns being located on the outer rather than the inner gun bays, with the problems the spit had with wing flexiing leading to poor accuracy with the outer...

Hi, am researching the Spitfire PRXIII ok it was a rare bird ony 20 or so made, but quite an interesting history fighting in the battle of Malta and diding a good deal of the Recce work for D-Day. Intrestingly also I think both in RAf and FAA service. I've come up aginast a bit of a hitch...

Now that's one pilot dedicated to his job. thanks Alban

Thanks guys, I think that feild repairs might have been what was in question but the old type of stack looks decidely "draggy" beside the smaller six stack. Intersting that there was a small increase in performance from the later exhausts, perhaps both issues were at work. Nice to have a...

Hi, I keep coming up with images of late spitfire V's with six rather than three stack exhausts. Were different engines other than the Merlin 45 being applied to these versions? They all universaly come from the late war era 44 or 45, were spit V's being retrofitted or did the production exhast...

Hi, I'm a bit late in giving out a thank you to the folks who contributed to this post. But better late than never, once again this site came up with the answer. Thanks Alban

Hi, I was hoping you might help me out with a question. Why the pink spitfire camoflage scheme, I assume is was a lov-vis thing? Does anyone here at the forum know how this came about? Very British I'm sure, nobody had anything simmilar in any of the other nations I can find. It's bugged me for...

Hi, I've dug up a bit more on the Spitfire Mk VIII 4 cannon armament, I have a painting of one in as predicted RAAF colours and also a E-document also from the RAAF about the subject. I'll post them on the site when i can figure out how to. A photograph of a VIII with 4 cannon was mentioned. Is...

Hi, great work you guys, everyting i wanted to know, thanks a lot to the folks at this site for thier help. All the best and good luck with a rockin' site that I'll keep visiting regular. Alban

Hi, thanks the only disagreement I have is that i seen some info that the Mk16 did occasionaly have the 4 cannon armament. Thanks a lot for the trouble taken, it has put most of the research i wanted in place. On a tangent is there a site where i can get hold of the flight performance of the...

Hi, thanks for the obvioulsly well researched answers which in fact answers pretty much what i wanted to know. The only other point was that i'm not sure if there was 4 cannon armament on the XIV as an occasional instaltion, also the XVI, again occasionaly. I also read that the two canon...

Hi, I'm doing some research. It concerns the Spitfire more particularly it's amament. firstly, I gather the Spitfire could use the 60 Lb rocket, does anyone here know if this is right. If it is are there anywhere i could obtain some pictures. They don't have to be high quality just to get the...