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Airfix 05110 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc / Seafire IIIc

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The Seafire, a name derived from Sea Spitfire, was a naval version of the Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. Although the Spitfire was not designed for the rough-and-tumble of carrier-deck operations, it was considered to be the best available fighter at the time, and went on to serve with distinction. The basic Spitfire design did impose some limitations on the use of the aircraft as a carrier-based fighter; poor visibility over the nose, for example, meant that pilots had to be trained to land with their heads out of the cockpit and looking alongside the port cowling of their Seafire; also, like the Spitfire, the Seafire had a relatively narrow undercarriage track, which meant that it was not ideally suited to deck operations. Early marks of Seafire had relatively few modifications to the standard Spitfire airframe; however cumulative front line experience meant that most of the later versions of the Seafire had strengthened airframes, folding wings, arrestor hooks and other modifications, culminating in the purpose-built Seafire F/FR Mk 47.

The Seafire II was able to outperform the A6M5 Zero at low altitudes when the two types were tested against each other during wartime mock combat exercises. However, contemporary Allied carrier fighters such as the F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair were considerably more robust and so more practical for carrier operations. Performance was greatly increased when later versions of the Seafire were fitted with the Griffon engines. These were too late to see service in the Second World War.

Vier uitvoeringen mogelijk;

1) nr.79 Squadron, Royal Austalian Air Force, Merauke, New Guinea, Oktober 1944.

2) nr.2 Squadron, 7 Wing, South African Air Force, Sicily 1944.

3) nr.103 maintenance Unit, Aboukir, North Africa, September 1942.

4) nr.887 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, HMS Indefatigable, South west Pacific Fleet, Augustus 1945.

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