Seafire LF Mk.III

[MachFly]

Just gotta know where to look.  About 40 bucks for a used one.  It's huge, so that's not bad at all

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Morgan&sts=t&tn=Spitfire-+The+History&x=41&y=17

Thank You Sir

[Guppy35]

Since you got me going on Spits.  My all time favorite Spitfire book is the one by Bruce Robertson.  A 1961 publication, but still worth it as a history.  Not as expensive as the Morgan book.    The only disappointment with the Morgan book is that there are a number of wrongly identified pictures of Spits that someone should have caught.  For technical detail etc it's the one to have.  Robertson's book was the one to have prior to Morgans

http://www.amazon.com/Spitfire-Famous-Fighter-Bruce-Robertson/dp/B0007F7DOY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301383841&sr=1-1

[MachFly]

I can't really afford to buy all of them right now, so now I'm sitting here lost looking at all the great books you posted. I would prefer to get a book with as much technical data as possible on every version. Right now I'm mainly using these two: http://www.amazon.com/Merlin-Powered-Spitfires-35-Kev-Darling/dp/1580070574/ref=pd_sim_b_2 & http://www.amazon.com/Griffon-Powered-Spitfires-Warbird-Tech-Vol/dp/B0044UZTD0, they are very good if you read the whole thing but it's not the best for reference use. Which would be better if say I want to find out all numbers on the mk XIV the one by Robertson or Morgan?

[Guppy35]

Morgan has the serial numbers and histories from the individual movement cards on all Spitfires produced, so if you want to know about a specific Spitfire and when it was accepted and what squadrons or units it served with, that would be the book.

If you are after something specific, I can sure look it up for you. The book is about 4 feet away from me on the shelf as I type

The below is the 41 Squadron website of Steve Brew.  The link goes tp some Spit XII histories.  The Spitfire XII stuff was compiled by me from the movement cards and pilot logbooks.  It's similar to what you'd find in Morgan although I did more detail since I was only covering 100 Spit XIIs

http://brew.clients.ch/EN221-238.htm#The

[MachFly]

I see, I'm leaning towards Morgan's book. You said some of the pictures are labeled wrong, would that be a big deal or are thous basic mistakes that I'd recognize and be able to live with?

That's for the offer, but if I allow myself to ask you to look something up I'd keep you here for hours as it would be a lot of questions.  


Thanks for that link.

[RTHolmes]

I picked up a decent used copy of Morgan & Shacklady for £25


edit: Corky if you have any notes on the mislabelled pics, I'd like to print off an addendum to keep with my copy. yes, I'm a stickler for detail

[Guppy35]

I'll come up with a list of the ones I've found so far.  While double checking the Seafire XV info, I found another where in the XV chapter they have a picture of an LFIII on it's nose on a carrier identified as an XV.  Rounded rudder was a dead giveaway that shouldn't have been missed by the editor in my opinion

[MachFly]

I'll come up with a list of the ones I've found so far.  While double checking the Seafire XV info, I found another where in the XV chapter they have a picture of an LFIII on it's nose on a carrier identified as an XV.  Rounded rudder was a dead giveaway that shouldn't have been missed by the editor in my opinion

You don't have to count them, could you just through out an approximate number?

If it's around 5 than it would not bother me, but if it's 50 I would not be as happy.

[Guppy35]

You don't have to count them, could you just through out an approximate number?

If it's around 5 than it would not bother me, but if it's 50 I would not be as happy.

Probably 10-15 that were obvious to me.  Simple stuff like ID'ing a Spitfire XIV as the prototype Spitfire XII. ID'ing Spit VI as Spit V.  ID'ing a Spit V as a Spitfire IX.  ID'ing Spit VIIIs as IXs etc.

[MachFly]

Probably 10-15 that were obvious to me.  Simple stuff like ID'ing a Spitfire XIV as the prototype Spitfire XII. ID'ing Spit VI as Spit V.  ID'ing a Spit V as a Spitfire IX.  ID'ing Spit VIIIs as IXs etc.

Oh that's not a problem. I'll most likely order it today, appreciated the help.

[RTHolmes]

lil bump here, just thought I'd add the production numbers to show that the Seafire III is an important version missing from AH:

#s     Mk
3971   LFIX
3923   VB
2447   VC
1549   I
1294   IX
1250   Sea III
1226   LF VIII
1054   LF XVI
920    II
500    XIV
471    XI
430    FR XIV
400    HFIX
372    Sea II
272    VIII
261    PR
225    XIX
160    HF VIII
141    VII
100    VI
100    XII
94     VA
27     XIV RV
16     X
2      III
2      IV

[SgtPappy]

Probably 10-15 that were obvious to me.  Simple stuff like ID'ing a Spitfire XIV as the prototype Spitfire XII. ID'ing Spit VI as Spit V.  ID'ing a Spit V as a Spitfire IX.  ID'ing Spit VIIIs as IXs etc.

I was reading an old encyclopedia that labelled a doodlbug-bound Tempest V as a Spitfire :S

[Bruv119]

nvm