(Post-) WW2 aircraft profile illustrations

@ Cranswick: “What if” versus “What really”!!!
I am seldom in Historic forum and have not your knowlegde of the RAF in WW2. 🙂

@ northeagle: Slán is gaelic for “Goodbye”, not my nickname. 😀

The site is not my site, just found it sailing through the WEB 2.0

Btw. today that site had an update

Have I missed something here? Some just-adequately rendered profiles full of errors (eg the Typhoon has the wrong exhausts, incorrect serial number, yellow LE stripes far too wide, no underwing stripes on the front view), parroting others inaccurate research (the green/grey Whirlwind should have black stripes between the white ones and the wing tips were black; the markings were for Operation ‘Starkey’, more than a year after ‘Dieppe’ as quoted). The ‘projects’ are more interesting but many (especially the postwar ones) feature inappropriate schemes.

So what exactly are these illustrations offering us? Trouble is, ‘profiles’ seem to acquire a quite unjustified authority – much like the ‘published word’. Oh dear I don’t seem to be able to find the right ‘smiley’….

Hi Slan,
Nice profiles. The Spitfire ones are shown as reversed though, Polish one is 616 Sqdn etc. Also, you have a typo in the squadron number. Should read 616 not 615. Did Johnson fly this one? It seemed to be the squadron ‘dog’. Heppell and Ralph Hogg both had landing accidents in it in October.

Robert.