Anatomy of the Spitfire Cockpit
The aim of this photo essay is to provide useful - and complete - photo reference to the layout and operation of the Spitfire cockpit. The aircraft serving as our subject will be the Spitfire Mk. Vb BL628 YO-D. Due to the fantastic quality of the restoration work which took full 30 years and was recently completed by Avspecs Ltd in Auckland, New Zealand, the cockpit of this Spitfire conforms almost entirely to wartime production standards. For this reason, the following photographs can serve as reliable reference to the cockpit layout of the production Spitfire Mk. V.
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[all photos in this article kindly provided by Andy Hosking of Avspecs, via Mark Davies]