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Old 11-23-2007 | 05:47 PM
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Default RE: Spitfire

Perhaps another reason the later marks aren't modeled as often is the complex landing gear. With the Griffon power plant came a larger prop so the gear legs needed to be lengthened.

Has anyone ever acurately replicated this gear action in a model?

The landing gear legs were also lengthened to provide sufficient ground clearance for the new, larger propeller; a system to compress the legs by 8 inches as they retracted and re-extend them upon lowering was devised to overcome the problems posed by the lack of room in which the longer legs initially had to retract.