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Trying to find a good Spitfire reference book
denizp
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Posted: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 - 02:39 PM UTC
Hello guys,
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a good Spitfire reference book for my library. I checked out almost every book on the Spitfire from the library system in California and I just don't want to waste money on anything else from Amazon based on a name or a publisher.
I am planning to work on a couple of Merlin Spitfires in the next couple months with lots of scratch-building and I think I basically want a Squadron Walk Around type book with maximum amount of detail photos and showing the differences between different marks, batches etc. I don't even need any technical information or historical data as I probably either read or downloaded everything out there (but nothing beats a hard copy book in your library of course).
Do you have a favorite book you can recommend?
Thanks in advance
Merlin
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Posted: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 - 08:28 PM UTC
Hi Deniz

For a Mk. V the Flying Zone CD-ROM is excellent.

For a Mk. IX, the best "walkaround" book I've found is Wings and Wheels Publications Spitfire LF.Mk.IX in detail. I've visited a Spitfire restoration workshop and noticed that they keep a copy handy as a reference...

All the best

Rowan
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