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Seafire XV prototype NS487 fitted with a Griffon VI engine, which impressed the team at Boscombe owing to its flush riveting, filled joints and polished surfaces. This caused a mild warning in that it proved very slippery during landing and care had to be taken on approach not to exceed the relevant approach speeds. Note the extra longitudinal strengthening on the fuselage side and panel work around the hook pivot point. The aircraft's high sheen finish is evident in the photographs. This aircraft was later used for weapons trials and arrestor hook trials at Farnborough, living a life of testing. Air Ministry Plane pixs

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Spitfire Dinghy And Supplies Apparatus (Sea Rescue Apparatus, Type E). Air Publication 1182D, Volume 1, Part 1, Section 2. P/b, Loose-leaf, 30p, December 1944 (3/45 print date). Approximately 18 x 24.5cm. Set out in two chapters, the first covering the description and operation of Spitfire rescue apparatus, the second covers servicing of the apparatus. Essentially this manual covers a modified type L dinghy and related supplies that were carried and dropped by a Spitfire aircraft to ditched aircrews (of not more than two in number). The apparatus was housed in the flare chutes as fitted to the Mk.I & II Spitfire, packed in three separate containers. These are illustrated along with their contents that included distress flares, tins of water, first aid outfit, emergency flying rations, leak stoppers, whistle etc. The second chapter covers testing and repairs to the dinghy, packing of the containers and how they were fitted to the aircraft.

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seller This was shot down by flak near Ijmuiden/Holland on 21.8.41 and made a belly landing, the 20-year-old pilot Lt. Pickstone of 130th RAF Squadron was captured and survived the war, dying in Canada in 2002. The plane was apparently exhibited for a while at various airfields along the Channel to show the German pilots up close who they were fighting. It did not reach Reich territory for further assessment or recommissioning, the damage did not allow this.

 
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P7443 Spitfire F.IIa (Merlin XII); TOC/RAF 1.10.40; No.54.Sqn ('KL-E'); Circus 5, shot down by the first Group of No.2 (F)Wing [I/JG.2], force-landed near Calais 26.2.41 (Sgt H Squire, PoW); SOC/RAF 28.2.41 (98:05 flying hours); To E-Stelle Rechlin; Messerschmitt factory Augsburg from 21.4.41, was to be fitted with a DB601 engine, but this was cancelled; Flown at Echterdingen (near Boblingen, south of Stuttgart,); Retd to Testcentre Rechlin 9.9.42; Fate unknown Spitfires in the Luftwaffe?

coded KL-E Charles Howard Squire

Shot down near Calais by Hptm Herbert Ihlefeld, Kommandeur I./LG2. Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Crashlanded spitfire -54 Sq

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Men of an RAF Repair and Salvage Unit working on a damaged Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No 403 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, at B.2 forward airstrip Bazenville in Normandy, 16-19 June 1944.

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