German Spits at Farnborough?

Thanks for your replies guys.
Phil.

Negatives of a whole series of these photos (all by Charles E. Brown) are held by the RAF Museum. AFAIK you can’t order prints from them now, but you can check the CEB photo collection index (paper, on site). IIRC there are very detailed captions for these particular shots. There is also a photo (and a list of names) of the pilots who flew these Spitfires.

Has anyone considered sending details of this display to the national newspapers. It might result in some interesting reading.

Maybe emphasise how close we really came…. 😮 Reminds me of a ‘Modern Day Picture’ of Buckingham Palace with the swastikas hanging on the side of the palace 🙁 I believe the caption read If but for the few??? I think the Daily Mail printed the pic?

Here is another photograph of the formation (published in the Flypast Spitfire supplement).
I assume the photographer was also Charles E. Brown.

Regards,

Paul

Has anyone considered sending details of this display to the national newspapers. It might result in some interesting reading.

17 Squadron RAF for the 1950 Farnborough show.

UT-D is survivor TB863.

Mark

Interesting, despite all the fuss recently regarding a certain Royal Prince, all the Spits are carrying Swastikas, and this only five years after the end of the war. Methinks the current fuss is less about PC and insulting veterans and more about selling newspapers.

A cracking photos has anyone ever seen anything from the actual display.

I know someone who was at that show. It was very convincing he said. There was a different photo of TB863 in the scheme in New Zealand Wings magazine when they did a full feature on its history in about 1990/91.

The caption says it all really. One of the Spitfires is TB863 which still flies in NZ (see my avatar).