The “Messer-Spit”
Did you know the Germans knocked the nose off of a captured Spitfire and welded on a more powerful Diamler-Benz nose? It was said to have been faster than a Spitfire and more maneuverable than a Bf-109 and could fly faster and climb higher than any German or British plane at the time. Only one was ever built as the Germans did not know how to build a Spitfire. The prototype was destroyed later in the war during an allied bombing.
Would this have fulfilled Galland’s request for a “squadron of spitfires”