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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
Figure 45:
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
The Spitre Mk.Vb ER622 of No. 40 Squadron SAAF was manufactured at the
CBAF factory in September 1942. It served in North Africa sporting shortened
wingspan tted with Aboukir-type wingtips and Aboukir-type tropical lter.
It was decommissioned from the RAF on 30 April, 1943, and was sold to Turkey
in February 1945. Note the gun heating pipe behind the rear exhaust pipe, typi-
cal for the late Spitres Mk.Vb (phto: IWM via Wikimedia Commons).
Spitre Mk.Vc Trop
with Aboukir type 2
dust lter
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