Spitfire with Griffon engine.

[lane]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Indeed the Mark XIV is definitely a notable missing type of Spitfire in the game.

I find the lack of Spitfire Mk I and Mk XIV in this sim after all these years to be totally perplexing.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by lane

I find the lack of Spitfire Mk I and Mk XIV in this sim after all these years to be totally perplexing.

Maybe the title of this sim might explain it, but I'm not 100% sure.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be included, because we all like to have a complete WW2 flight simulator I hope, in fact I'm looking forward to yet another high performance plane.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by lane

I find the lack of Spitfire Mk I and Mk XIV in this sim after all these years to be totally perplexing.

Actually there's a very good reason for it initially.

Oleg's team never gave us any Spitfires on their own. Two community members plus all of the help they got was the reason why we have the Spitfire models we do. Gibbage did the Mark Vb and IX and Nyme did the Mark Vc, Seafire III and Spitfire VIII for Pacific Fighters. The ones for Pacific Fighters were because of their relevance in the Pacific theater and the ones Gibbage did were the ones that the Russians used as lend-lease aircraft.

A few more sub variants were added during Oleg's time and TD has added some more very useful sub variants as well.

So lacking the Mark I and XIV on the face of it is really quite sensible. There were two or three separate community efforts to produce a XIV during the window in which Oleg was still accepting aircraft but none were completed in time and most were not that far along anyways.

If someone has a XIV model done to Oleg standards then hopefully they come forward and submit it for possible inclusion or they work with TD to bring it up to the levels that it needs to be at. My fingers are crossed. I do still have some research materials on the XIV that may be of use but I'm not very talented with 3D modeling unfortunately.