Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Clipped-wing Spit

Even though, aesthetically, Spitfires with 'clipped' wings are inferior (just my opinionI), clipping the wings did improve the roll rate. I've got one 'clipped' wing Spit in the collection, a Mk V in DAF colours, but then came across a later (Mk IX) model in more 'normal' camouflage colours. Needless to say what happened when I saw it on eBay (pesky finger couldn't keep still)...


As far as I can tell, this is the actual aircraft the model is based on; in this picture it had received some limited 'invasion stripes'.

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