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Re: New built Spitfires?
Posted by PeterA on Wed Oct 23, 2002 06:02:55 PM
In reply top Re: New built Spitfires? posted by Cees Broere on Wed Oct 23, 2002 01:50:55 PM
Cess,
Well prototype in the sense that it was the first Spitfire that Charles Church commissioned Dick Melton to construct. It was going to be a Mk IX initally and part way through build was reconfigured as a mk V. A Westlands constuctors plate was sourced from Australia and from it a nomimal estimate of the RAF serial made. There was not one rivet of the original EE606 on the machine. This was to be the first of a squadron of Spitfires that Charles Church had planned.
Peter
: Peter,
:
: You are referring to "EE606" which was classed as sort of
: a prototype Spitfire?
: I read something like that in FlyPast I think. So if Charl
: es Church had not died the situation could have been very
: different?
:
: Cees