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Spitfire
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 19:43
by BAe146
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 19:49
by TobyV
Mk T.9 apparently. It seems this one has been a two seat, back to single seat and back to a two seater in its lifetime. I suspect it started out life as a standard Mk.IX?
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 19:51
by VEGAS
Great cockpit shot Bae. Make you want to just climb in and start it up!
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:05
by BAe146
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:23
by DispatchDragon
Nice shots Bae
Thats not the Mk9 that Cliff Robertson owned is it???
Leif
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:24
by Ed Walters
No...
The one Cliff Robertson owned is in the Seattle Museum of Flight, as I recall it.
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:26
by DispatchDragon
Well if it was in Denver maybe it will appear on this side of the rockies
Would love to see something besides the Firefly at Nellis this fall
Not that Im arguing about that - its a gorgoeus beast
Leif
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:27
by Ed Walters
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:31
by Ed Walters
Bill Greenwood is the current owner of TE308, the two seater shown in these shots. He's owned it since 1983, so if he's not made it to Nellis yet, I'd guess he's unlikely to!
It was never converted back to a true single seater - the rear cockpit was faired over, but given that the forward cockpit was moved forward in the Tr.9 conversion by 13 inches or so, they look decidedly odd with the rear canopy faired over.
Posted: 12 Jun 2006, 20:31
by Ed Walters
And yes, it was built as a single seater - no Spitfires were built new as two seaters.