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Buried Spitfires

Willy

Willy

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Looking for my backup to the Seafires, I was digging through some old backup discs that I made about 7 years ago. Near the bottom of the pile was one labeled "Aeroplane Heaven Spitfires". Could it be? At one time I had all three packs, but my old comp had framerate issues with them so they didn't stay installed long. Yep, all three Spitfire installers were on there (along with the unmodded Seafires). The early Spitfires, the mid war ones and the Griffons. Apparently, back then I had sense enough to back up the installers even though my comp then didn't like them.

So, I installed them and they run nice on this comp. One can never have too many Spitfires. This is also giving the me the chance to redo my "Racin' Spitfire" (Mk XIX). Some people like Mustangs, but give me a Spitfire over a P-51 any time.
 
JDTinballs said:
Hearing you loud and clear there. Think I've got every spit going, lol.

Jamie
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Thee and me both Jamie. The few gaps left by Aeroplane Heaven and RealAir have been filled by Scrubbie and Monsieur Rebuffat. As Willy says, Mustangs, who needs em. :kilroy:
 
I've got a book that is a color pictorial history of a USAAF squadron in the MTO that operated Spitfires. They eventually switched to Mustangs, but the pilots much preferred their Spitfires. One is quoted as saying that on a long range mission, the Mustang was pretty good, but if they got into a dogfight, he wanted his Spitfire.

I don't have the Real Air Spitfires, but between Aeroplane Heaven, Rebuffat and the old AlphaSim ones, I've got a couple of hangers full.
 
Willy said:
Some people like Mustangs, but give me a Spitfire over a P-51 any time.
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Yes sir, I subscribe to that point of view as well. Mustang is a fine bird but there's NOTHING like a Spitfire. :salute: Now a Sea Fury.... on the other hand. That's some REAL power and very classic lines.

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Blackbird686 said:
Now a Sea Fury.... on the other hand. That's some REAL power and very classic lines.

BB686:USA-flag:
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I saw that one coming... :icon_lol:

ironically both the Spitfire and Mustang were in a way 'sisters' in that the P-51 initial series (A-36/P-51A), as i recall, was designed to an Air Ministry/British Purchasing Comission specification here in the UK, and that the P-51's nickname is from the RAF also... the Mustang I's being their name... which were later given Merlins, which then got licence built by Packard amongst others and fitted to subsequent marks... kinda cool really, she's not the 'all American' classic most think :)

i too own a whole spate of Spitfires... the favourites being Mk.V's and Mk.Vc Trop and Vb 'Floatie'.... the prior two were operated from the salt lake on Kos where i spent many a happy hour as a kid, unaware that spitfires had once used it...
 
And the Spitfire XVI also used the Packard Merlin like the Mustang. But even going back to my CFS 1 days, I never really took to the Mustang.

I've been like a kid in a candy store today with AH Spitfires.
 
i hope these work....

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that same salt lake is now (within the last 5years) partially submerged, just a few miles up the coast after Kos fell after the only sustained contact between opposing 'Special Forces' (UK's Special Boat Service agains the German 'Brandenburger'), but was home to the RAF Spitfires (at both Tigaki/Marmari Salt Lake and Antimachia & a 'Floater' was proposed to be based in Kos Harbour, an old Greek guy i know remembers the RAF Officials in Kos Town looking closely at the Harbour) the RSAAF Spitfires also called the salt lake home alongside Antimachia... brings me to a question... is the JF Spitfire the Aeroplane Heaven pack? if it is.... well.... i can see me painting a whole Spate of Spitfires this weekend :icon_lol:

co-incidentally i actually located exactly where the first photo was taken when looking back on my Kos photos from 2011... taken from my room;

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the dry patch is roughly where the Spitfire was, photographer would have been just left of the 'palm' trunk... was pleased with myself on that find :wiggle:
 
Matt, the Aeroplane Heaven Spitfires are also the Just Flight ones. AH & JF went into an agreement where AH would develop and JF would do the sales. This was for a whole bunch of aircraft that AH did.
 
The Only Flying Mark 1 Spitfire Has Flown

In my latist issue of Air Classics the Mark 1 Spitfre is on the cover. It was built in 1938.

Cheers

Casey
 
ack.... typical, mapping issues on the top section of the fuselage on the Mk.I front lines up fine.. but the rear... ack!

shame really as i was looking forwards to a Mk.Vc later down the road but with the mapping issues i cannot do my best work so it'll have to be shelved, i won't release what doesn't fit in my top 1% personal standards... :(
 
I have never seen the AH Spitfires.
I used the freeware Seafire only, and I even used it in FSX (where it was working fine), but never saw the other variants.
If I remember correctly, there were not so many freeware Spitfires available (with complete model, including VC), right ? The AH freeware Spit was by far the finest model I had seen for that plane, at least for FS9.

The Sea Fury has a very cool freeware model too, with many variants. I can't remember the author, though....
 
Paul Rebuffat did a bunch of freeware Spitfires that were quite good. They're a little old now, but still excellent. And AlphaSim has their old Spitfire pack (a Mk VIII and a Mk IX I think) available now as freeware. But still, I like the AH ones best. Although the Rebuffat XII is one sweet flyer.
 
Willy said:
Paul Rebuffat did a bunch of freeware Spitfires that were quite good. ........Although the Rebuffat XII is one sweet flyer.
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Which is lucky, as it is the only game in town. Always had a soft spot for the Mk XII, a bit of a hotrod (in a speed trial it left a Typhoon and Fw 190 in it's slipstream, much to the astonishment of all present). Although only 100 were built one has survived, EN224, which was apparently being restored to airworthy condition; sadly things have gone pretty quiet of late.

And yes, Alphasim's was a Mk VIII & IX, but I only use the VIII as the Aeroplane Heaven Spit is much better.

Speaking of aircraft being restored to flight, a few people might be interested in this. Again, at the moment things have gone a bit quiet, but hopefully the day will come when we see this little beauty back in the air where she belongs.
 
I tend to use the Rebuffat Mk VIII instead of the AlphaSim one. I mainly mentioned the AS ones as they're now freeware. When I reinstalled the AH Mk IXs, I renamed the Rebuffat Mk IXs to Mk XVIs so that I can tell them apart in the menu easily.
 
Seing as we're talking AH......

Does anyone have an opinion or thoughts/comments on the AH Mossie. The reviews (2) on Flightsim Pilot Shop are contradictory. I've been eyeballing the Griffon engined Spits and the Mossie packs. Based on the comments here I'll be getting the Griffon powered Spit soon. Thanks to all for the info on that!:salute::salute::salute:

Dave
 
AndyG43 said:
Speaking of aircraft being restored to flight, a few people might be interested in this. Again, at the moment things have gone a bit quiet, but hopefully the day will come when we see this little beauty back in the air where she belongs.
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The Tempest II in New Zealand , http://www.hawkertempest.se/MW376.htm is on hold again, after the owner and his wife were sadly killed in a Beech Baron crash a few months ago........so....I guess it waits for a new owner before more work is done........
 
SPman said:
The Tempest II in New Zealand , http://www.hawkertempest.se/MW376.htm is on hold again, after the owner and his wife were sadly killed in a Beech Baron crash a few months ago........so....I guess it waits for a new owner before more work is done........
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That's very sad news, both that such valued memebers of the community lost their lives and that the project is on hold.

Kermit Weeks is also restoring a Tempest, a Mk V, to airworthy condition. With luck we could be moving from famine to feast!
 
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