Spitfire Mk.Ia R6690 No.609 Squadron

[huub vink]

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military skins - World War II

Description: The textures depict the Spitfire R6690, flown by P/O John C. Dundas, No. 609 Squadron, RAF Middle Wallop, 13 August 1940. According the Air Ministery directive from 11 August 1940 the aircraft should already have had roundels at the bottom of the wings. However this was not introduced by 609 Squadron before mid-August. The squadron had the aircraft code painted in black on a light (most probably white) panel on the nose.
John Dundas became famous for shooting the German top ace Helmut Wick on 28 November 1940. Moments later Dundas was probably shot down by Wick's wingman, Rudolf Pflanz.

I wish to thank the guys from Aeroplane Heaven for making this very nice model, which was the perfect canvas for my repaints. And I wish to thank JustFlight for making a free demo from this model available at their site. And last but definitely not least, Martin Wright for his simple but indispensable graphic tools, as without his dtx1 bitmap manipulator these textures simply wouldn't be there.

Enjoy,
Huub
October 2023

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[Motormouse]

Hi Huub,

thanks for this one, the Dundas/Wick combat is well known in that part of southern England where I'm from originally. You might find this linky of interest ( and give you another subject 152 Sqn)

https://www.aerialcombat.co.uk/2020/...poole-bay.html

Likewise there's a certain amount of ambiguity concerning location; being recorded variously as Poole Bay; West Wight; Off the Needles; S/W of Needles ( technically English Channel) etc. Oh and Rudolf Pflanz wasn't Wick's designated wingman that day...

Ttfn

Pete

[huub vink]

Thanks Pete,

It was definitely a confusing period and I came along some contradicting information already. But as always I try to find some background information about my subjects. Actually this is the best part of making repaints. The same R6690 also flew with the code PR-Q, but so far I haven't been able to find when and why this was changed (this is part of the contradicting information). Dundas flew another Spitfire on the 28th of November, as the R6690 was lost on the 18th of August, while flown by P/O Geoffrey Norman Gaunt.

Cheers,
Huub

[Motormouse]

Hi Huub,

The only thing I've found out about it,(the codes change) from here

https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/R6690

was it was being flown by John Dundas as PR-Q on 13 Aug 1940 ( you might want to edit your description ) and sustained damage enough in combat that day to cause Dundas to make a dead stick landing at Warmwell.

My guess would be it was then removed to either an MU or one of the civilian repair depots as the comment there suggests; ( Air Service Training at Exeter would be closest) then re allocated back to 609 where it was re coded PR-A probably to replace the original PR-A; in time for it to be shot down over London ( by a Me110) on 15 Sept 1940; again confusion reigns there as some reports suggest it was up from Kenley; while others Middle Wallop

Link to more Spitfire history

http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/download.html

Ttfn

Pete