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Spitfire
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Pilots of 611 West Lancashire Squadron lend a hand pushing an early Spitfire Mark IXb, Biggin Hill, late 1942. (RAF Official)
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You´re right. I have read that some aces waxed their planes to get more speed out of them. And some german planes were painted with gloss paint for same reason.
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Well if you look at the ground under the plane it's wet so I'm guessing it just got done raining that would explain the plane having a gloss look.
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It looks like the plane is painted with gloss paint or is the surface wet?
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Well since the canopy is dried and so is most of the ground I'd say that Ostuf W is right and it's waxed or painted high gloss. Because the rain would have run off the sides easily