Duxford Today!

These D-day markings always look too ‘tidy’ for me, like they’d been applied at the factory, rather than roughly & quicky in the field as many photos show.

BTW – definition of ‘bidet’ – two days before D-day.

Geoff.

Archer’s teasing!

Not teasing.

Here truly is MK732 with ML407 in the background in June 1944.

The small ‘V’, a bit feint in this shot, is just discernible on ML407.

Mark

Photo: Mrs I B Patterson

Shouldn’t ML407 have another small V on the starboard side?

Indeed it should and I suspect it will very shortly.

‘Pat’ Patterson’s aircraft MK732 OU-U however, when so similarly painted just before ‘D Day’, appears not to have carried the small U on the starboard side, in the photos taken at that momentous time.

Mark

Archer, don’t tease! 😉

Naaah, that’s not teasing Daz, this is:

So they do go all the way around.. I think I need glasses, sorry about that.

Archer, don’t tease! 😉

Shouldn’t ML407 have another small V on the starboard side?

Would’ve looked nice next to this one (which has been repainted since of course):

Aon sponsors ML407’s insurance – nice of them! 😀

Great shots, Mark12 – might take a while for me to get used to the new markings! 😉

This is possible. I asked myself for some time what it was. Thanks Archer.

J.V.

Isn’t that because Carolyn is sponsered by Aon?

Thanks Mark,

Yes, she does look different. Nice plane!

Why is Aon written on the port side?

J.V.

Duxford today – 13th May

Full air test and shake down for ML407 in the new livery.

Livery as of June 3rd 1944 – full circumferential stripes covering the RAF serial and with the small individual letter ‘V ‘on the port side only.

Mark

Job there for Steve Young in a PA28 😀

Geoff.

Not so much ‘Beware the Hun in the sun’, as ‘Beware the Young in the cloud’.

Ask Moggy. 😉

I was due to go today, however the plan changed and the Mustangs went yesterday afternoon, as I had a prior arrangement yesterday evening I had to pull out. Still all is not lost it means I can bimble around in the 172 and build some hours while I wait for them to return

Bad weather kept him here,we gave him a cup of coffee then he went back up north.

Maurice and rob made it though,nice weather in Berlin

Missed out on that one eh Chris?? 🙂

Spotted as I drove past, the Black Hurricane from up north. I am not sure what it was doing there but it had disappeared by lunch.

Probably headed for Berlin.

Mike J – Photograph

Mike J,

That will be this one.

Mark

Nop the 1/3 one

Ah! New Stripes.

Would this be the full circumferential stripes?

Mark

Artwork credit: Tom McArthur from 2nd TAF Spitfire.

dazdaman

You could always think like a Hollywood Director. Send up a Cessna 150 with a German paint job and tell eveyone that its a JU88

Now you have ruined the ending.. they would never have guessed.