Made a quick visit to Duxford today and was impressed with the Swordfish restoration, I never realised how big the ‘bird’ was,. It would be nice to see this airframe on the flight line at ‘Flying Legends’ a perfect showcase for the work put in by the restoration crew. A few images are attached.
By: Manonthefence - 18th April 2005 at 06:55
It was a training scheme to make it more conspicuous during daylight, a bit like the Hawks and Tucanos nowadays
😉
By: DaveM2 - 18th April 2005 at 06:04
Italian port of Taronto was one of the biggies, don’t think they were painted balck for that though.
Dave
By: Dave Homewood - 18th April 2005 at 03:31
What is the idea of it being all black? Did they make torpedo raids at night? If so, where?
Looks stunning.
By: LAHARVE - 17th April 2005 at 22:20
In agreement with you Damien, the’Blackfish’ is looking really good, looks like it wont be long before it is finished, does anybody know if there will be a similar roll out ceremony to the Mosquito if so when ? Acouple of shots from today.
By: Corsair166b - 16th March 2005 at 18:17
Looks EXACTLY like the background of the hangar, does’nt it? Probably modern computer graphic camo, like they’re doing for the soldiers nowadays…
Saw the Swoprdfish at DX in 2000 performing with the ‘Diamond Nine’ gang in their Tiger Moths…the Swordfish appeared to be almost 3 times the size of the Moths….amazingly big plane….glad to have seen one fly and hope to again…
Got the same impression from the SBD Dauntless first time I saw it…thought to myself “This thing is a third again as big as a T-6!”, did’nt expect it to be that way….
Mark
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 16th March 2005 at 16:52
Particularly in the moody black scheme. Should be awesome when fully marked up.
The camoflage on the fin seems remarkably effective….
LOL 😀
By: WebPilot - 16th March 2005 at 16:46
Particularly in the moody black scheme. Should be awesome when fully marked up.
The camoflage on the fin seems remarkably effective….
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