>Большое Спасибо!
>А откуда табличка, приведенная Вами выше, если не секрет?
Составил по AirBritain Spitfire International. Там, как мне кажется, очевидная ошибка: время прибытия третьей части Spitfire-ов указано - март 1942г (должно быть март 1944). Проверял по Шэклэди, там эти машины в феврале 1944 еще в RAF.
>Почему-то в ней названия операций совпадают с теми, которые дает автор статьи, только в первой ("Оратор").
У Геуста в RS4 по этому поводу сделано замечание "Операция Source, необходимая для подготовки операции Bron" стр191. А Тангстэн тоже отдельная операция.
>И такой вопрос: PR IV и IV/D - не знаете чем различались?
Вот отрывок из Spitfire The history, Morgan & Shacklady. Извиняюсь, что без перевода.
A number of Spitfires did eventually have the Merlin XX installed, but those built on the production lines were normally fitted with the Merlin 45 or 46. There was a whole plethora of Type numbers allocated to the early converted and production aircraft, and confusion reigned until the Air Ministry issued role prefixes came into general use. Before this event seven of the early variants were known as the Types A to G, the letters perally defining camera installation, engine, armament and fuel arrangements, as specified in a letter from MAP to Supermarine dated 13 February 1942.
Spitfire Type A Merlin III. Retrospectively allocated to the first camera installations in the wings of N3071 and 3069 by RAE Farnborough. These were to become PR Mk Ills. Normal Spitfire fuel load; one F24 camera in each wing; one 'spotting' camera behind pilot.
Type B (SR) (Short range) (PR IB) Merlin III. Allotted to the first two aircraft after addition of a 29 gallon petrol tank under the pilot's seat. Also to PR Mk III. Camera as Type A with Sin focal length lens and installed under wing blisters.
Type C (LR) (Long range) (PR 1C). The original two Spitfires converted once again to accept a rear fuselage mounted camera/s (one Eagle or IX), plus the 2 x F24s Sin lens in starboard wing under blister. Extra fuel tanks were added: 30 gallons in a fixed blister under the port wing and 30 below the pilot's seat. These three designations applied to Spitfires converted to the modifications tested on the two original aircraft. The additional 40 Spitfires mentioned by Saundby and Sholto-Douglas in July 1940 carried the last designation mentioned. It is interesting to note that such was the urgency for delivery that two aircraft had Merlin II engines and one a Merlin XII. Eventually redesignated PR Mk III. The conversions to PR standards was carried out equally by Heston Aircraft and RAE Farnborough and many alternative colour schemes were tested, such as white, pink, blue and green. A blue grey, known as PR blue with 4 inch serial numbers was eventually adopted as standard. A large number were eventually converted to Type F standards.
Type D (Special L R) (or Super Long range). A number of important modifications were made to these aircraft including installation of two F8 20in and F24 14in focal length cameras. Early aircraft had the Eagle IV in the rear fuselage. Cameras were normally mounted in the rear fuselage and inclined so that two, overlapping photographs could be taken simultaneously. The 'D' wing with leading edge fuel tanks of 66| gallons in each was standard and total fuel load, including 30 gallons behind the pilot, amounted to 218 gallons. Hot air camera heaters were included and additional oil was carried in a blister tank under the port wing. Redesignated PR Mk III. Air Marshal Portal of Bomber Command wanted to return his Type D, one per week, to Rolls-Royce from 7 March 1941, for installation of the Merlin 45. He said: "I will have to risk the Germans getting hold of a Merlin 45 in order to obtain results". A bold statement when the Merlin 45 was a top priority engine for the forthcoming Mk V Spitfire. Type D production aircraft were eventually fitted with the Merlin 45 or 46 and three
standard camera arrangements known as the W, X and Y were specified. Details of these are included in the Leading Particu-lars at the end of this chapter. Other equipment included a TR1133 R/T set, a K-Type dinghy and drinking water. A small batch of this type went to the Middle East and were fitted with the Aboukir filter. Redesignated PR Mk IV and V. A one off variant of this type was produced for low-altitude work for oblique closeups. It had an F24 camera installed under each wing in a bulged fairing with the lenses at right angles to the line of flight and pointing slightly below the horizontal.
Type F(LR). Conversions by Heston Aircraft Ltd, in 1941/42 with camera installation of one vertical F8 20in, or two F8 20in, or two F24 20in vertical and one F24 14in oblique. Oxygen economisers, the latter feeding only when the pilot took in oxygen; when he breathed out a valve closed cutting off supply. Tear drop blisters in cockpit hood sides*; a 20 gallon fuel tank under the pilot's seat and 30 gallon blister tanks under the wings; deeper nose cowling due to larger oil tank. Redesig-nated PR Mk VI.
Type G. The first armed PR Spitfire with standard 'A' wing (8 x .303in m/gs). All conversions by Heston Aircraft and fitted with two independently operated vertical (F24 Sin forward; F24 14in rear) in rear fuselage, mounted port and starboard. If needed a third F24 could be mounted in the rear fuselage for downward views from the port hatch door. Bullet proof windscreen; cockpit hood teardrops; standard reflector sight; armour plate. Redesignated PR Mk VII. A number of these conversions (ie PR Mk XIII) were later fitted with the Merlin 32 engine. All subsequent PRs with this arrangement became the PR Mk XIIIs. Also, a small batch of Mk I Spitfires were due to be fitted with the Merlin 32 and be designated the PR Mk VIII, but this was abandoned when the Air Ministry issued its list of official designations and it would have clashed with the F Mk VIII fighter.
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