Strana 18
Spitfire Mk.Vc Trop with Aboukir type 2 dust filter
Figure 44
1. Rotol propeller
2. Lower engine cowling modied
3. Shortened wing tips for the low level operations. These shorte-
ned wingtips are typical of the tropicalised Spitre Mk V, which
was modied at Aboukir. They have a dierent shape to the
standard shortened wingtips found on factory-produced Spit-
re LF Mk Vb and Vc aircraft.
4. Aboukir type 2 (later design) dust lter
5. Large tropical oil cooler
Spitre Mk.Vc Trop
with Aboukir type
2 dust lter
Spitre Mk.Vc late with
bomb attachments
Spitfire Mk.Vc late with bomb attachments
Figure 43:
1. Underwing bomb attachments with 113 kilos bombs
HISTORY
INFO Eduard18
January 2026