Right after RT 41/2 was circulated to the membership in June 2019 it was brought to the Editor’s attention that RT had previously published an article on the same Spitfire aircraft that graced the cover of that issue. It also graced the cover of the May 1972 RT. How quickly 47 years passes and how soon we forget our past work.
In an effort to make amends I thought it would be educational to present Carl Vincent’s and George Hopp’s original artwork and article (below) to today’s RT readers. This accomplishes a couple of things; first, Carl brings out some interesting additional details about this aircraft that were not presented in the 2019 article, and it’s an interesting comparison between the RT of old and that of today.
Some of the details in the original article don’t align with the most recent version, but back then they were working from only two reference photos, while I had a full set of seven original images from which to make my deductions. It just shows that there’s probably nothing that should be called the ‘final word’ in research in this hobby.
Here’s a PDF of the original article and artwork:
Steve Sauvé
RT Editor,
IPMS Canada
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