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.
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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.
