DH89 Last Sunday

Brilliant pics. It’s great to have so many enthusiastic photographers on the forum who are happy to post their work for the rest of us to enjoy. Many thanks to B17-Man and everyone else.

When I got in I felt that I should have brought my slippers along, Beautiful interior and the seats are so comfortable, they just need to sort out a trolley dolly to serve some drinks
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Thanks chaps. So I guess the finflash was a precaution to protect it from being mistaken as a German bomber by British fighters then.

If I remeber correctly the colours relate to the aircraft being used during the war to fly from northern Scotland to the Orkneys, Stornoway and Shetland.

Nice to see Mark flying it beautifully balanced! Has the seductive new leather smell worn off yet??

G’day 😉

If you look at the white panel on the nose of the Rapide, you will see the title of Scottish Airways who I believe worked in close association with Railway Air Services providing scheduled services during the war. There’s a picture on Page 77 of the Railway Air Sevices book of a lineup of 5 Rapides taken at Renfrew in 1944, all in this colour scheme and all with civilian registrations. However all the passenger windows are painted over for “security reasons”.

Lovely Pictures 🙂 🙂

This was the official colour scheme used by all British civil registered aircraft during WW2.

Peter

The style of the serial on this aircraft looks identical to those I’ve seen on wartime BOAC Mosquitoes, so I assume that this aircraft was with BOAC or some such commercial company. The fin flash would be for wartime identification purposes, ensuring it wasn’t shot down by friendly fire!

KLM operated a UK-Portugal line for BOAC during the early war years. The (originally Dutch) aircraft were painted in camouflage colours with British civilian registrations for this purpose. I’d have to look up a photo to see if they carried fin flashes, but the scheme would look very similar to what’s seen above.

Great photos B-17man!!

Edit: the scheme was apparently also used by BOAC Sunderlands, judging by this Corgi model:

That’s one of my all-time favourite twin aircraft. It’ll blow my socks off if I ever got to fly one in my lifetime. Lucky ***! 😀

Daz,

The aircraft impressed into RAF service would have been given an RAF serial. The style of the serial on this aircraft looks identical to those I’ve seen on wartime BOAC Mosquitoes, so I assume that this aircraft was with BOAC or some such commercial company. The fin flash would be for wartime identification purposes, ensuring it wasn’t shot down by friendly fire!

Dave – I could be wrong, but I think some of them were impressed into RAF service. Don’t know the ins and outs of the whole thing, personally, I just know that some were.

It is the American cemetary at Madingly
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Great photos. Where is that cemetery?

Does anyone know why the Dh89 has an RAF finflash but a Civilian code? Is it based on an immediately post-war demob scheme?