Starting in early 1945 most Spitfire Mk XIVs also used clipped wingtips, mainly in an effort to reduce wrinkling of the wing's skin; again the LF prefix was not applied to these aircraft. Sadly, the experienced pilot, Bertil Gerhardt died when Spitfire SM845 crashed at Tynset in Norway when the aircraft veered off the runway during landing.The Spitfire was subsequently returned to the UK where it has undergone extensive restoration to flying condition by Historic Flying Limited, in the Aircraft Restoration Company’s hangar at IWM Duxford, for its new owner, Richard Lake. They were quite unqualified to make such a judgement and later events would prove them totally wrong.After intensive test flying, the most serious problems were solved by changing the gearing to the trim tabs and other subtle control modifications, such that the Mk 21 was cleared for instrument flying and low level flight during trials in March 1945. New England Air Museum – Burnelli CBY-3 Restoration Update – August, 2020 […] “Flying the Barrel:” Explaining the F-101 Voodoo […] Post 4:35 PM - May 27 #1 2020-05-27T16:35. However, it has been more than a year since our last progress report by George Land On July 18th, 2020, the Shuttleworth Collection held the first air display in the United Kingdom under Covid 19 regulations over their home airfield at Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England. Redesigned upper wing gun bay doors incorporated "teardrop" shaped blisters to clear the cannon feed motors and the lower wings no longer had the gun bay heating vents outboard of the gunbays.These were specifically made for the Photo-Reconnaissance Spitfires, including the PR XIX; no armament was fitted and the "D" shaped leading edges of the wings ahead of the main spar, were converted into Structurally unchanged from the C wing, the outer machine gun ports were eliminated, although the outer machine gun bays were retained and their access doors were devoid of empty cartridge case ports and cartridge case deflectors.

The Mark numbers used in the aircraft designations did not necessarily indicate a chronological order; for example, the Mk IX was a stopgap measure brought into production before the Mks VII and VIII. The only respect in which the XIV fell short was in its range.The Mk XIV could climb to 20,000 ft (6,100 m) in just over five minutes and its top speed, which was achieved at 25,400 ft (7,700 m), was 446 mph (718 km/h).In operational service many pilots initially found that the new fighter could be difficult to handle, particularly if they were used to earlier Spitfire marks. [ August 5, 2020 ] The larger diameter four-spoke main wheels were strengthened to cope with the greater weights; post-war these were replaced by wider, reinforced three spoke wheels to allow Spitfires to operate from hard concrete or asphalt runways. Posted in Models by Srecko on 06 June 2010 Tags: AZ, kit, model, plastic, Spitfire, Srecko, Supermarine. Warbird Digest has just received the July, 2020 report from Chuck Cravens concerning the restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. When retracted the wheels were fully enclosed by triangular doors which were hinged to the outer edge of the wheel wells.The first production Mk 21s used the same airframe as the Mk XIV. Mark XX was given to the original Mk IV Griffon engine prototype The Griffon engine drove an 11 ft (3.4 m)-diameter five-bladed propeller, some 7 in (18 cm) larger than that fitted to the Mk XIV. I realised at once that we should have to correct its directional characteristics and probably its longitudinal stability also, both of which in due time we achieved. [ August 4, 2020 ]