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By: Box Brownie - 10th November 2004 at 22:32

Black thunderbolt photo

Yes, Mk 12. Give me time to find it please.

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By: Mark12 - 10th November 2004 at 22:10

Thanks for the link Mark 12, I hadn’t seen it. As you know, this is a well known a/c. Thought I would share these photos as they were retrieved from a loft in Warwickshire. I scanned from the originals, photos taken by a pupil pilot on the unit who I got to know. The colour on the leading edge a fuselage stripe was red.

BoxB

Any of the black Spitfire in the same scheme?

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By: Box Brownie - 10th November 2004 at 22:07

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Thanks for the link Mark 12, I hadn’t seen it. As you know, this is a well known a/c. Thought I would share these photos as they were retrieved from a loft in Warwickshire. I scanned from the originals, photos taken by a pupil pilot on the unit who I got to know. The colour on the leading edge a fuselage stripe was red.

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By: Smith - 10th November 2004 at 21:43

Looks great – any idea what the other colour is (around the cowling and reaching back along the fuselage). Yellow? Gold? I’ll bet someone here is good at translating B&W into colour.

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By: Mark12 - 10th November 2004 at 21:35

Black P-47. Fayid

See this also from six days back.

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By: Steve T - 10th November 2004 at 19:30

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Wow! Now there’s a way to paint one’s P-47…especially if one were game to turn a pylon or two at Reno. That is just superb; thanx for posting the pix. You say there was a Spit in the same scheme…and this was in the Mideast? I’ll bet that Spit would have been the inspiration for Ezer Weizman’s famous Israeli AF “Black Widow” Spitfire…even the T-Bolt in this livery made me think of old “20:57”.

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S.