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  1. Airhistory lists Spitfire Mk.Vc BR483 as the only BR4.. serial number machine to fly with 417 Squadron. But BR4.. AN-V clearly has a B wing in the photos.
  2. Note that the starboard wing is on the right of this photo, with AR-G very close, and the starboard tailplane in the top left corner of the photo. The serial W4783 is in it's normal position.
  3. As mentioned above the Wingleader Lancaster Mk.I/III books have lots of good photos and you can download sample pages from their website... https://wingleader.co.uk/books/lancasterearlywpa5/ (Early Production) https://wingleader.co.uk/books/lancasterlatewpa15/ (Late Production)
  4. Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but I'm pretty sure what I'm looking at is a roughly painted roundel.
  5. Here's one from the Air Force Museum of New Zealand collection with folded wings (and a rather roughly painted wing roundel). High resolution version can be downloaded from here https://fotoweb.airforcemuseum.co.nz/fotoweb/archives/5003-Search-the-Collection/Collection/PR4367.jpg.info#c=%2Ffotoweb%2Farchives%2F5003-Search-the-Collection%2F%3Fq%3Dcorsair and 267 more RNZAF Corsair photos https://fotoweb.airforcemuseum.co.nz/fotoweb/archives/5003-Search-the-Collection/?q=corsair
  6. I would say, based on photographic evidence, that Spitfire seats had the rear padding fitted. I've certainly never seen a WWII photo showing a Spitfire prototype/Mk.I/II/V/IX seat without padding, but my mind is open to being changed...with evidence.
  7. This logic doesn't quite ring true for me as a reason why there might not be cushioning on the back of the seat because, just like the real Mae West, all the cushioning on the RAF life preserver was in the front. Again, I don't think I have ever seen a WWII era photo showing a Spitfire seat without padding (they were easy to remove and can be seen in various photos showing routine maintenance). The RAF Mae West https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30013157 The real Mae West!
  8. Not interior green in this image of Mk.Ia R6692 from the well known film.
  9. I read this sometimes on here but wonder what proof there is of unpadded Spitfire seats. Even the prototype K5054 seat was padded, based on crash wreckage photo from September 1939. The seat padding recovered from archeological crash digs of Mk.I & Mk.II Spitfires appears very dark, practically black.
  10. I think flat varnish would be a good way of representing the frames. It looks like the seal varied between gray and red brown Many more high resolution color photos here https://catalog.archives.gov/search?page=1&q="Image Courtesy of Mackenzie Bell and Thomas Guffey" B-17
  11. There was a photo of DL-N in Aviation News V15#7 1986 and if I've done things correctly it should appear here. Spitfire Mk.I DL-N from Aviation News V15#7 1986.jpg
  12. Do you have a link for the National Archives site with this photo? Because my searching ability has failed me yet again.
  13. Nope, Mk.XIV undercarriage legs are also the same color as the factory painted underside, just like the insides of the undercarriage doors and wheel wells. And usually the wheels as well.
  14. As an aside, it looks like the concentric rings around the tyres only appear well into 1941-42, after they stopped putting Dunlop on them. Could this be related to the removal of Dunlop branding?
  15. Fuselage roundel applied at the factory while the fin flash was painted later at the unit, or MU, with paler red & blue perhaps?
  16. It's almost as if you haven't watched the video.
  17. Whatever red they used appears to be about as dull as the rest of the red markings. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205188602
  18. This is what it looks like on Mk.XIV NH757 in April 1945. Note that the airframe appears to have had quite a few paint touch-ups.
  19. I feel that a lot of what we base our Dark Earth and Dark Green paint preferences on depends on how much influence we have placed on the various WWII color photos we have seen. Photos by Life IIRC.
  20. SM483 was a high back Mk.XVI when it crashed in February 1945, so it's reasonably logical SM411 was a high back as well. It's a bit of a myth that all (or even most) Mk.XVI were low back.
  21. In the 54 Squadron ORB, there is no record of Deere ever flying P9398. But it does show him in P9390 over two dozen times. Here is a page from the Kotare instructions which show a photo of what they say is P9390.
  22. I really do recommend you read the newest Windsock for the most up to date take on the finish of the Dr.I. https://www.windsockdatafilespecials.co.uk/fokker-fidri-1441-p.asp
  23. It was a very pale linen. Like a bleached linen bed sheet. Photos of damaged Dr.I with exposed interior fabric show it to be very very pale, or white. The interior linen would be white linen, but in shadow. Sort of light grey.
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