Windsor Spitfires logo change

[k5083]

My hometown Canadian Hockey League team, the which has been named Windsor Spitfires since shortly after WWII (the reference being to RCAF 417 "City of Windsor" Sqn, a Spitfire unit sponsored by the city during the war) has recently announced a change of logo from a rather bad insignia to the new one depicted on these pages:



http://www.windsorspitfires.com/

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/ ... 9d241a133f

A nice logo for a hockey team, I think you'll all agree. I tend to think James and our other friends down under will especially like it.

Reactions from the community are generally positive, but at least one person has written to the local paper complaining that it depicts an American P-40, apparently fooled by the shark mouth. I guess I may have been wrong recently when I contended, in the recent CAF P-40 thread, that the shark mouth has not made the P-40 famous among the general populace. But I still blame P-40 owners for duping the populace into believing that if a WWII fighter has a shark mouth on it, it must be a P-40!

Anyway, I have of course sent photos of 457 Sqn Spitfires to the wilderness of Canada to set the record straight.

August

[Django]

That's pretty cool. I like it!

Here's a pretty low rez jpg of a logo I did for a Chicago Youth hockey team a few years ago.

[Steve Nelson]

Cool logo! I love it!

As for the misidentification thing, I was showing somebody at work a pic of a model I built of a Tachikawa Ki-55 trainer, and they said "Neat..a Japanese Zero!" Now that I think of it, I don't have any finished models in my collection with shark mouths. I'm just not particularly turned on by them. I'll probably do a shark-mouth AVG bird sometime, but for later model P-40s there are way too many other cool schemes out there.

SN

[PeterA]

The late Don Plumb would be proud.

Don, Windsor resident and importer/owner of Spitfire TE308.

PeterA

Last edited by PeterA on Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:54 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Elroy13]

Here is the Houston Aeros hockey team logo in the AHL.

[k5083]

The late Don Plumb would be proud.

Don, Windsor resident and importer/owner of Spitfire TE308.

Mark

Indeed, Peter/Mark, I believe Plumb was a Spitfire fan back in the day. Since Windsor was for many years the home base of the only airworthy Spitfires in Canada (first TE308, then MK923), many Windsor residents for many years assumed that the hockey team's name referred to these latter-day machines. Luckily, since the construction of the 417 Sqn memorial in the city's nicest park, there is more consciousness of the true referent.

August

[wls3]

Being a baseball fan, I found this one interesting.
Florida State League, Class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers
The Lakeland Flying Tigers.

[Elroy13]

I like the Flying Tiger logo! COOL!