When I was working on my next entry for deleted Spitfire projects, the Mk AT-10, I made the decision that enough was enough,… you must not push it too far. How further the project was going, how more extreme the designs became. The preceding page was created inside the mind of your webmaster. So, if you thought it was all for real, I have to disappoint you,…

Meanwhile, there are some things come to light, I was not aware of when I made the ‘fairytale’ remark above on the Rolls Royce Camelot,… It was not until the end of 2016 that I heard of Roll Royce technicians who had a similar engine in mind, and they called it the Merlin H. I was a bit modest with (‘my’Camelot) ‘just’ an output of 3500 hp, at Rolls Royce they had 3700 to 4000 hp in mind! But it came no further than drawings and a mock-up.

The real deal?... Not a Camelot, but a Merlin H (below the mock-up)

(Source: Rolls-Royce Merlin Manual: An Insight Into the Design, Construction and Use
of the Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine (Owners Workshop Manual), Ian Craighead

Evenso, I hope you had a pleasant time at the ‘secret project’ page. The drawings I made them a couple of years ago and now the time was ripe to share these with the world. After all the serious work on my pages (all true) it was time to release some pressure in some lighter work.

If you feel offended by the preceding page (and found it a waste of your precious time, because you could have walked your dog, do the dishes or rearrange your bookshelf),… than except my sincere apologies

During the years that these pages were online, I did get a lot of response, mostly very positive. One of these came from Ole A. Hoel, from Norway, in March 2013. He mentioned that the ‘Twin Spitfire’ would have worked, and he had the same idea, and build a model out of two kits. The ‘Twin’ was put into camouflage of the Mosquitos flown in the Norwegian 333 Squadron. The only thing Ole adapted was the stabiliser, by using a stabiliser as on the Twin Mustang. Ole mentioned also that the Firefort was not that farfetched, because Supermarine was thinking at the time of a concept similar to the Defiant type, with a turret on the rear fuselage and the gunner behind the pilot controlling remotely the turret. This would-be model is now being built by Ole.

On 11 May, 2015, I received a mail from Ian Ratliff:
Hi.
First I would like to say what a great website you did about the spitfires.
I'm just wondering if you had anymore info on the following.
Mk AT-10, T-900 & Mk99 Twin.
Thank you.
Ian.

Ian asked for extra information on three 'made-up' Spitfire versions. He had not noticed the words I had placed on this page, that I was responsible for these versions. Ian was not that disapointed and wrote to me he was trying to build one anyway. On 29 May, I received some pictures of the finished model, and Ian gave permission to share these with you.