![]() Although difficult to confirm it is likely, in view of the company’s long association with flying boats and seaplanes, that the paint used was standard seaplane hull grey, with an additional coat of high-gloss varnish. ![]() Unlike its Aluminium (silver) painted contemporary prototype, the Hawker Hurricane, the new Supermarine monoplane was painted overall in a high-gloss grey finish. On 5th March of that year, the Supermarine Spitfire, K5054, made its first flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome, near Southampton. The year 1936 was proved to be the last before the new types in their newly-adopted camouflage finish began to be seen in ever-increasing numbers throughout the country. DURING 1936 British fighter aircraft were still adorned in the gay, heraldic paint schemes that typified the years between the end of the 1914-18 war and the appearance of the new types of combat aircraft ordered under the Expansion Scheme for modernising the Royal Air Force’s equipment.
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