DH Hornet F-3 WB880

Nothing to do with WB880, To get out of sport, Which my dad hated playing. He went and cut up a DH Hornet with an axe which had belle landed. I have never found out where or which Hornet it was. Now he cannot remember much about it. I to hate playing sport.

Dave

This one you mean! 😉

Like Mark said, this was one of several Hornets operated at RAF Seletar by the RAF for pilot conversion and training. This particular one was flown by a friend of mine; Peter Sheppard, who was I believe the last pilot to convert to the type in 1954/55.

Thank you Mark – I have PM’d David as well, I appreciate the fast postings and the info – very kind of you, thank you.

I’m sure David Collins will be along in due course and he’ll be able to tell you all you could possibly want to know, but in the meantime I can tell you the little I know.

I drew the illustrations that went in to the Dalrymple & Verdun Hornet book mentioned in the die-cast forum you linked to in your first post. The profile I posted above is one of the 4-view set of WB880 from the book. The caption that accompanied the 4-view gives the basic info of the aircraft, i.e. F.3 WB880 c1955 operated by the Far East Training Squadron at RAF Seletar and RAF Butterworth.

I really like this colour scheme, especially as the spinners are painted in such a way that they form the RAF roundel when viewed from the front.

Over to you DC!

Mark

Thats the one Mark! – Thank you, do you know any more? Unit, location etc – thank you

This one?