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Old 09-01-2012, 08:08 AM
dFrog dFrog is offline
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Originally Posted by IceFire View Post
If the XIV model is to be done full justice then it would be:

F.XIVc
F.XIVc Clipped
F.XIVe
F.XIVe Clipped
F.XIVe Bubble Canopy
F.XIVe Bubble Canopy and Clipped

I think there were some power changes involved there too so perhaps the bubble canopy one would be more representative of a March/April 1945 machine while the XIVc would be the mid 1944 and the XIVe would be late 1944. Without introducing ridiculous numbers of variants.
+ gyrogunsight added to all Spitfires from mid 1944. It is shame that only P-51D-20NA has it while brits were the first who used it. Here in Mk.IX :

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