Latest Spitfire Quiz

If it was 1986, I’m pretty certain it wasn’t TE184 then! :p

That was MY doughnut, you!

Sounds right for the date (I keep adding a few years to avoid feeling so old)

And I’m sure it was MH434. I don’t recall TE184 there at all…

Cheers

Thanks Mark12,

Given my memory is turning into gouda cheese, let’s see if Septic remembers / has pics. He was there too.

Cheers

Septic Calling..

Trying to locate memory, seem to have mislaid it!

I can’t honestlty remember seeing you take this pic, must have had a face full of doughnut at the time.

I’ve got a feeling it was the 1986 Cranfield show, and the Spit in question MH434. Do you actually know which Spit it is JDK.

Septic.

Nah,
From me ‘have to try harder’ means I’m not giving it to you on a stab in the dark with 1/3 of the answer. 😀

OFMC have always used the pin in the external power socket, which I rarely see on any of the others. Thats the flag hanging down.

Beat me to it Bruce! That is why I thought it was 434 but quite early on (and the fact that you can see the W/T and DTD stencils on the tail that very few Spitfires carried then). It was only JDK telling someone who suggested it was 434 that they ‘would have to try harder’. In my experience that means “no – you are wrong!”.

Ifinite storage eh?

TE184.

HF Scheme.

Loads of oil.

Nav/radio lump.

Mark.

Credit: PerfectPic Co

Thanks Mark12,

Given my memory is turning into gouda cheese, let’s see if Septic remembers / has pics. He was there too.

Cheers

JDK,

I removed the post just as soon as I could when the anticipated and posted photo of TE184 in HF scheme p*ssng oil everywhere and with a Nav/Radio rectangular lump that fitted your aperture, failed to appear.

I decided not to remove 600+ photos from the archive before some discussion.

My MH434 photographs in HF scheme are dated 1988/9.

Mark

There’s an outside chance its ML407, which was there as well – over to Mark12 if he can differentiate!)

JDK

As you have introduced an element of doubt here – these are my observations.

No obvious demarcation line for the upper dark camouflage which would be seen at the wing root fillets. So a PR or HF scheme but not a Mk XI due to the fixed tail wheel.

No invasion stripes or tail band to the naked eye so unlikely to be ML407.

That should leave MH434 and TE184 both suggested candidates in HF schemes.

Without any date reference, here is a photo of a notorious ‘oil leaker’. Re the rectangular black aperture, you will see that it has a non standard Nav/radio lump at the appropriate place that, try as I might, I cannot link to any shot of MH434. Just look at the amount of oil pouring out of the rivets on the radiator fairings then look at the spread of the oil trays under TE184.

If you say it is MH434 that is fine by me. Are we seeing full frame of the photograph?

I’m doing the next quiz. 😉

Mark

Photo: PerfectPic Co

PS
I am 20 something Mb over my limit for posting photos on this new Forum so no more images from me it seems.

Interesting point about the flag Bruce. I think TE184 was also in the custody of OFMC as well at this time.

Mark12 removes his post, then Bruce arrives. My previous post is now garble…

But I think Bruce is right.

Cheers

Hi Mark12,
First off, thank you! Yes, you can have the next quiz by all means.

It’s not TE184 (not present on the day, which IIRC, was a Cranfield airshow, late eighties 88 – 89? Septic might know.)

This IS the full frame of the pic! Both Spitfires there were in late war camo IIRC, though your logic is good – was 434 in the HF scheme late 80s?

Cheers
PS Your pic from PPC seems to be missing…

2 observations:

After its rebuild, MH434 was quite an oil leaker for a while.

OFMC have always used the pin in the external power socket, which I rarely see on any of the others. Thats the flag hanging down.

So I think it is 434.

Bruce

Point to mmitch.

‘Cranfield’ (As in the Aerobatic aircraft the Cranfield A1 – geddit?) and the only (any others anyone?) University fitting my description…

Aircraft: MH434 (IIRC! There’s an outside chance its ML407, which was there as well – over to Mark12 if he can differentiate!)

When? Some time ago.

Achtung!

Kronfeld – verry interresting.

Mark

Another guess ,Spitfire NH238

Cranfield?
mmitch.

JDK.

Do you mean like ‘Uno’-Varsity?

I am still scouring Pooleys within 200 miles of Duxford. 🙁

Mark

Mark,
I thik Proplover refers to th efurther after square cutout… Or am I wrong?

Location: The ‘Duxford Doxie’ – not another aircraft I’ve ever heard off. Duxford isn’t a ‘teaching’ institution in the sense that, say, Oxford and Cambridge (cities) are, and this town and airfield have an (aerobatic) aircraft named after thewm which in an old fashioned sense are ‘number one’…

Yes, the correct Spitfire has been called, but I wasn’t (an am not going) to take part answers! (It’s my quiz, I can make up the rules if I want… :p ) 2/3 of the answer will be enough, not 1/3.

C’mon. It’s a SPITFIRE! It’s got to be a limited range of them (not early, not late…)

Very poor, very poor.

😀

Downward ident light aperture.

Mark

Ok, lets try a more basic question then – is that a camera port?
If it is then there cant have been to many Spits with them in the last few years.