Again from the Spitfire crash site
Article about: On the first picture do my eyes deceive or is that a pear-shaped indentation? If so it could be the modification that was done to accommodate the tail-wheel.
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Re: Again from the Spitfire crash site
Any of the pieces for sale. And i did not know they had american parts on them. Thanks
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All you need now is a big tube of glue and you could put that thing back together
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yanks12025
Any of the pieces for sale. And i did not know they had american parts on them. Thanks
Sorry but nothing for sale. Just all for our museum.
British aircraft in Italy often have USA radio.
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Very interesting stuff! The pump you are looking at is a water pump. Are you sure it's from a Spitfire? The wood airscrew looks more like from a Harvard. By the time Spits were in Italy they were all using metal props. But the rest of the items are very cool indeed! I also wonder if you may not be digging up multiple airframes.
Cheers
Gary
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Hello Gary (astonishing selection of bits in the other thread!) I think all of Matteo's pieces are Spitfire. Very early (Battle of Britain era) Spits had aluminium blades made by DeHavilland. Later marks had wooden laminate blades by Dowty Rotol. The labels are also umistakably British and other identifiable pieces, although difficult to dig out pictures of, are a pneumatic connection to a .303 browning, a brass slider off the canopy, an elevator or rudder trim tab frame and lots of round engine cowling faster surrounds with alignment marks on them. Over on the Flypast forum a Very knowledgable expert has suggested:
'I would say JF879 from the stencil spacing, plus the flaked paint leaving a witness mark on the base metal on the '8', similar to the missing paint on the down stroke of the '7'.
601 Squadron loss 2 April 1944. Operating out of Marcianise (about one third up the west side of the Italian 'boot')'
Does this agree with your details, Matteo?
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for the info on the prop manufacture. I thought they had all changed to full metal props by then. A good friend of mine (Chuck) informs me that the radio Crystal Unit is for either the reciever or transmitter of a SCR-522/TR-1143 which is a US made but modified for the British aircraft radio.
Cheers
Gary
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ian_
Hello Gary (astonishing selection of bits in the other thread!) I think all of Matteo's pieces are Spitfire. Very early (Battle of Britain era) Spits had aluminium blades made by DeHavilland. Later marks had wooden laminate blades by Dowty Rotol. The labels are also umistakably British and other identifiable pieces, although difficult to dig out pictures of, are a pneumatic connection to a .303 browning, a brass slider off the canopy, an elevator or rudder trim tab frame and lots of round engine cowling faster surrounds with alignment marks on them. Over on the Flypast forum a Very knowledgable expert has suggested:
'I would say JF879 from the stencil spacing, plus the flaked paint leaving a witness mark on the base metal on the '8', similar to the missing paint on the down stroke of the '7'.
601 Squadron loss 2 April 1944. Operating out of Marcianise (about one third up the west side of the Italian 'boot')'
Does this agree with your details, Matteo?
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I think they might be Hurricane, I believe that HA stamped on the plates, is Hawker.
Bob T.
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