About the wonderful elliptical wing...before you wax too lyrical about it, best to remember it originated with Ernst Heinkel. A Canadian aeronautical sent to Germany in the 1930s to see what the Germans were up to came back telling R.J. Mitchell all about the design. Unlike Kurt Tank and Willi Messerschmitt, Mitchell was taken by the idea.

Yes that is right and Henikel used the wing on the
HE-111. And by the end of the war the wing on the Spitfire had be clipped. The wing off both the JU88 and the Mosquito lasted the best and unchanged through out the war with all there versants.