By: dhfan - 16th September 2021 at 01:36
Show-off… or better memory 😉
Thanks.
By: avion ancien - 15th September 2021 at 17:58
….. not demons and somewhere between fourteen and sixteen.
By: dhfan - 15th September 2021 at 17:15
IIRC, a film company borrowed the only airworthy Hurricanes they could find from the Portuguese Air force for one of the extremely well-known British war films in the fifties. I know perfectly well which film it was – but I can’t remember…
By: Prop Strike - 6th September 2021 at 21:00
airart of this forum wrote as follows on 6/06/09
”The Portuguese Ministry of Defence, through Col. Santos Costa, issued an order on 4 August 1954 not to procure or produce any more spare parts for Spitfires and Hurricanes.
The last operational flight had been performed at Sintra on 5 June with Hurricane Mk.IIC serial no. 615. On 31 August Gen. Carlos Costa Macedo, Chief of Air Staff of the Air Force ordered the official retirement of all Hurricanes from service.”
Portugal has to be a contender, but uncertainty prevails..
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