Spitfire Mk II P.O.H.

[ares473]

I was going through some of my old boxes of warbird books and found my reprint copy of the Supermarine Spitfire Pilot's Flight Manual. It's for the Spitfire MK IIA and MkIIB. I had bought it because I thought it would go good with my RC Spitfire I am building, but after playing AH2 I thought, I wonder if the game gets the performance close to what the manual says. I haven't tried it yet, but it should be fun.

[Karnak]

Well, we don't have a Spitfire Mk II in AH, so there may be some problems in comparing it directly.  Speedwise the closest Spitfire would be the Mk V.

[ares473]

You are correct sir we don't, I saw IIC in the list and didn't even pay attention to the fact it was a SEAfire IIC not SPITfire IIC. Thank you. 

[Bruv119]

following on from my post wishing for a complete list of Spitfires I +1 your thread.

slightly faster than the 1 without the negative cut out?  sounds like a fun little ride that could smack the brewster in the mouth?  

[waystin2]

following on from my post wishing for a complete list of Spitfires I +1 your thread.

slightly faster than the 1 without the negative cut out?  sounds like a fun little ride that could smack the brewster in the mouth?  

+2

[gyrene81]

slightly faster than the 1 without the negative cut out?  sounds like a fun little ride that could smack the brewster in the mouth?  

You talkin about the IIa or IIb? I don't think the IIa could smack much more than a bi-plane out of the air...but it was fast.

[Karnak]

You talkin about the IIa or IIb? I don't think the IIa could smack much more than a bi-plane out of the air...but it was fast.

Mk IIas "smacked" quite a few Bf109Es, Bf110Cs and various twin engined German bombers out of the air.   It had the same eight guns as the Mk Ia.

Also, it had the same float carburetor issues that the Mk I had.

[Angus]

It was better at alt, had a tad more power, an upgrade in armour and radio, and the same carb problem. The carb was fixed with the mkV, and better still later on.

[Kev367th]

By March 1941 (approx) all of Fighter Commands 'Merlins' had been fitted with 'Miss Shillings Orifice'.
This didn't solve the negative g problem totally, but it did allow short periods of inverted or negative g flight.

Another step forward was the introduction in 1942 of an anti g modified SU carburettor allowing sustained negative g flight.

The full 'fix' came in 1943 with the introduction of the bendix carburretor.