JustFlight - Spitfire Mk V - Legends of Flight

This Spitfire Mk V package includes four Mk V variants in 13 authentic paint schemes, featuring incredibly detailed cockpits, exacting flight dynamics and realistic Merlin engine sounds:

• Mk Va (2)


• Mk Vb (4)


• Mk Vb tropical (3)


• Mk Vc clipped wing (4)

Many consider the Spitfire Mk V the ultimate Spitfire, with its new 'Merlin 45' engine delivering a combat-rated 1470 hp, much improved performance compared to previous variants, and service in tropical climates, desert campaigns in Africa and the tropical conditions of the Pacific Theatre.

The Mk V was the most numerous Spitfire variant, and by the end of production a total of 6,487 had been built or converted from Mk 1 standard. The Mk V could carry bombs, be fitted with a 'slipper tank' to extend its range, and turned into a tropical version with the addition of the ungainly Vokes sand filter housing.

FEATURES OVERVIEW

• 13 authentic liveries


• Extremely high quality interactive 3D Virtual cockpit - every switch, knob and lever works, most with bespoke animation code


• Great sounds of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine


• Canopy jettison feature


• Highly detailed texture mapping without compromising frame rates - shadow texturing where appropriate


• Layered paint kit included


• Highly tuned Spitfire flight dynamics


• Comprehensive manual


• Animated pilot figure


• Detailed Merlin engine visible


• Engine start battery trolley


• Engine start smoke effects


• Multiple view points

MODELS

The exteriors models have been built according to the most accurate plans available to achieve accurate profiles and shapes, specular and bump mapped where appropriate.

• Mk Va eight -gun wing


• Mk Vb cannon wings


• Mk Vb Tropical filter


• Mk Vc four-cannon wings (clipped)

ANIMATIONS

• Cockpit drop down door


• Engine starter battery trolley


• Opening radio compartment with radio set sliding out


• Animated pilot figure


• Canopy jettison feature


• Sliding canopy


• Undercarriage


• Wing top undercarriage status indicators


• Fully animated control surfaces - flaps, rudder, elevators, ailerons, trim tabs

INCLUDED AIRCRAFT

Mk Va

• W3185 D-B ‘Lord Lloyd’ - flown by Wg Cdr Douglas Bader, OC Tangmere Wing, August 1941


• R7335 AH-J - flown by Flight Commander Finn Thorsager of the Norwegian 332 Squadron, RAF Catterick 1942.

Mk Vb

• W3238 PR-B - 609 Squadron RAF, 1942


• BM144 RF-D - flown by Flt Lt Jan Zumbach, No 303 'Polish' Sqn, May 1942


• X4272 SD-J - 501 squadron, June 1944


• RS-T - flown by Wing Commander Robert Stanford-Tuck (29 recorded kills) who flew with his personal initials as squadron codes

Mk Vb Tropical

• EJ-G - 127 Squadron RAF, 1943


• 308th Fighter Squadron USAAF, 1943


• BR562 X-R - flown by Flt Lt Ray Hesselyn RNZAF, No249 squadron, July 1942, Malta.

Mk Vc (clipped wing)

• EP120 AE-A - Canadian squadron Mk Vc


• BM181 AX-D - USAF Mk Vc


• AB509 JM-C - 142 Squadron RAF, June 1944


• AR 614 DU-Z - 312 Czech Squadron, 1942