Kotare Spitfire Mk.Vb (Early) available to pre-order.

[mozart]

3 hours ago, Shoggz said:

This is a good documentation of the Eagle Squadrons and their activities:

 

I’m guessing that’s “Shorty” Keough front right? Mebbe not……

 

 

Edited October 29 by mozart

[Shoggz]

4'11" wasn't he?!

 

Must have been like Short Round driving the car in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

[mozart]

13 minutes ago, Shoggz said:

4'11" wasn't he?!

 

Must have been like Short Round driving the car in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

I know every inch matters (I’m only 5’6” so I know about these things!) but according to Frank Ziegler he was 4’10”. 

[Pete Roberts]

Haven't got those two - I still struggle with Spitfires carrying American markings - but can recommend the range of Spitfire books Ventura published.

 

They seemed to be very well researched, with very good information.

[CRAZY IVAN5]

7 hours ago, mozart said:

I know every inch matters (I’m only 5’6” so I know about these things!) but according to Frank Ziegler he was 4’10”. 

4'10"? Holy Toledo didn't the RAF have a minimum height requirement!? I sat in a spit once[ MKXVI] and found it to be a nice fit [ I'm 5'8"] How did this poor guy see out of the thing ? Must've sat on some seat cushions and did the rudder pedals have enough adjustment? Quite obviously they and he made it work. 

[mozart]

This young man, who looks about 14 but was in fact 21:

 

…is Rowland Telford Ward from the Bondi area of Sydney. He was but 5’4” tall but managed to pilot this:

 

 

and ultimately this:

 

 

Where there’s a will, there’s a way! But for his pains he died on 3 March 1945. 
www.ordinarycrew.co.uk

 

Edited October 30 by mozart

[RBrown]

I wonder if we will see a HF Mark VI from Kotare?

 

 

 

Edited October 30 by RBrown

[VMA131Marine]

23 minutes ago, RBrown said:

I wonder if we will see a HF Mark VI from Kotare?

 

 

 

Less than 100 airframes built and served with only 3 squadrons: 616, 124, and 680 in Egypt got 6 aircraft.

[Martinnfb]

On 10/29/2024 at 8:56 AM, Shoggz said:

4'11" wasn't he?!

 

Must have been like Short Round driving the car in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

Seat and rudder pedals are adjustable. However, I personally found the Spitfire Cockpit so cramped that I refuse to sit in it, I am (was at the time) 6'2".

Even if I was somehow able to made it in, I would look like a wasp on the top of a cupcake. 4'11" is in my opinion the perfect/ if not almost ideal height.

Edited October 30 by Martinnfb

[nmayhew]

3 hours ago, RBrown said:

I wonder if we will see a HF Mark VI from Kotare?

 

 

 

 

exceedingly unlikely; plus i don't like those nasty looking pointy wings! 🤭

[CRAZY IVAN5]

1 hour ago, Martinnfb said:

Seat and rudder pedals are adjustable. However, I personally found the Spitfire Cockpit so cramped that I refuse to sit in it, I am (was at the time) 6'2".

Even if I was somehow able to made it in, I would look like a wasp on the top of a cupcake. 4'11" is in my opinion the perfect/ if not almost ideal height.

I can well understand your being cramped at 6'2". At 5'8" it felt good to me but there wasn't a lot of head room and it was a bit tight at the shoulders [for me]. Now that I'm thinking about it , there were a lot of female ferry pilots that flew all kinds of stuff . Some of them weren't very big either.

[Martinnfb]

Shall we say Oompa Loompa fighter?  

[BloorwestSiR]

Slightly off topic but when I think of a cramped cockpit, the Hs129 comes to mind. To me, it looks like it's assembled around the pilot rather than the pilot climbing into it. 

 

As for Spitfires in Stars and Bars, it changes up the look of the plane and what one expects when you say Spitfire. 

 

[MikeMaben]

 

 

 

[CRAZY IVAN5]

5 minutes ago, MikeMaben said:

 

 

 

Man! He's in there! That's a tight fit I don't think I'd fit in one and I'm not that big. Hell, I thought A-4s were tight.