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Spitfire III - questions
Hello!
Reading a few books on Spitfire I have met different informations about Spitfire Mk III.
First of all, wing span and surface. According to Caygill's book (Combat Legends) it's 9.93m. Matusiak in his book on Spitfire Mk V writes that the span was 9.30 m. Same information I found in Price's Spitfire monography (published by AJ Press in 1997). I also have Shaklady and Morgan's 'Spitfire - The History', yet there's no information about it...or maybe I have overlooked it.
Now the surface problem. What was it?
Second problem. What version of Merlin powered Spitfire Mk III during its maiden flight - Merlin X or Merlin XX?
And the last, I think, problem. What was the original painting scheme?
Thank you for every hint.
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