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Troy Smith
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I was describing the black and white scheme used until 7th June 1940. The photograph dates from later when only the port wing was painted black. See my second post.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2621/img0002exv.jpg

There was some variation in what was the port wing.

There are some post on Britmodeller regarding 1 squadron, and French blue undersides, which are interesting, and will link /quote later.

The photo quotes is very famous, often captioned as Crete 1941 IIRC, but what is not noted is that the Black/Sky boundary is the exact point the outer wing joins the centre section, so this could be a replacement wing from a black winged aircraft, rather than a non standard black/sky boundary.
It is also the only example I have seen of the colour change occurring in this place.

There is a famous photo of a VVS [Soviet] Hurricane showing a fuselage in temperate land scheme [Dark Green/Dark Earth/Sky] with the wing replaced with a Day Fighter Scheme one[Dark Green/Ocean Grey/Medium Sea grey]
picture at top of this thread
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1441.0

Hope of interest
Troy