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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guppy35 on January 15, 2008, 01:51:09 AM
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Kev367th did this Spit I a while back. Had some good fun vis the 109Es in the AvA tonite.
Rolls like a bus, engine cuts out all the time and shoots 303s, but a fun little kite :)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/EarlywarDuo.jpg)
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Corky. Its not in 15,000 pieces. Whats wrong with you?
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I thought Dan only flew bombers. :D
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Lay off guys, he's obviously just getting in touch with his feminine side. :)
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Rolls like a bus, engine cuts out all the time and shoots 303s, but a fun little kite :)
I was wondering about the engine cutting out. First time flying this Spit in the AvA. I thought it was my computer lag causing it. Interesting...does roll like a bus too!
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The plane is whole because as everyone knows... take off in a spit and take a nap as the plane will do most of the rest. :lol
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Dans a not-so-closet Spit Dweeb, hes just waiting for his Spit XII to get made.
Nice screenie. :aok
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Rolls like a bus, engine cuts out all the time and shoots 303s, but a fun little kite :)
These are the qualities that make the Spit I the only Spitfire you can fly without being ashamed to tell people that it's you.
- oldman
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Anyone that knows Dan will tell you he is very knowlegeable about Spits.
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Originally posted by Shuffler
Anyone that knows Dan will tell you he is very knowlegeable about Spits.
Ya I hear he has a wide collection of spittoons, and can pretty much hit any of them from anywhere in his house ! He's got all the "spits" down !
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Originally posted by yankedudel
I was wondering about the engine cutting out.
Just in case you don't know ... the Spit I has a gravity fed carb ... so if you go inverted or cause negative Gs ... gas does not go to the carb and the engine cuts out ... until gas flows back to the carb again.
This characteristic makes flying this bird ... properly ... a true challenge.
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Thank you for the education. I didn't know that! Very cool!
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(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u7/rattfink31/sexypinkspitcopy.gif)
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Can anyone post a color pic of the real one? I don't doubt it existed, just wondering when and where it was used, and by whom.
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Its a PRO Spit, I'll start looking.
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Originally posted by oboe
Can anyone post a color pic of the real one? I don't doubt it existed, just wondering when and where it was used, and by whom.
No color photo, but Kev and I made sure the ducks were lined up before he did this one.
It's PR IG R7059 of the RAF PRU Unit stationed at St. Eval in Cornwall. It was an armed recce modified Mark I Spit used to photograph the French ports. It carried the PRU Pink paint the same as the later in the war Spit IXs did for armed recce work. LY was the code for the recce unit
This is the photo that showed the unusual placement of the upper wing roundels.
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/PR1F.jpg)
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Pink was found to be the colour that showed up the least when seen against clouds. These Spits were used for low alt reconnaisance which is why they went armed.
I vaguely recall a story about someone in the USAAF deciding pink was the least visible colour at night for painting F117As. This idea didn't go down to well with the pilots however so they switched to dark grey.
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Originally posted by Greebo
Pink was found to be the colour that showed up the least when seen against clouds. These Spits were used for low alt reconnaisance which is why they went armed.
That's exactly why they are pink. Note the lil window behind the cockpit.
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Interesting, I wouldn't have guessed pink was low-vis against a cloud background. I was going to guess it was used in the desert - I know some of our B-24s were painted a pinkish tan colour.
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Spit 1's are too fun. They do roll like a bus, engine cuts out in neg G's, and it does shoot .303's, BUT it shoots 8 .303's! At close range that can be devastating, and it's the best turning spit in the game. Able to even out turn a spit 16.
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I always assumed they would have upped at first light or sunset. Somedays The clouds look very PINK!!
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Camouflage can be a funny thing and sometimes the opposite of what you would think.
RAF Coastal Command found that white painted aircraft showed up less against the night sky than black painted ones. Black aircraft showed up to U Boats as a dark silhouette against the clouds.
RAF Bomber Command discovered late in the war that gloss black aircraft showed up less when lit by searchlights than matt black ones.
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Heres an SAS land rover.Pink was good camo in the desert.
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z207/Pimpzdog/PinkPanther.jpg)
Pipz
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last i knew f-117's are black.