Quickly nipped into the RAF Museum forty minutes before closing time yesterday to show a mate round (back on Friday though) – on my last visit, the Spitfire and Hurricane replicas on poles had been gone, and on my visit yesterday they were back, in new colour schemes. I also noticed something I never have before – original gates from the Grahame White Factory next to the car entrance to the museum, although as you can see, in summertime foliage would be in the way
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th March 2008 at 12:23
Here is FT-E at Zeltweg (rear) and a colour representation of FT-J. Sorry if these are poor quality. Being a nit-picker, the black and white checks on the fin are out of proportion, too.
By: Collis - 27th March 2008 at 12:22
could have been ending 546, eyes must be getting old.
When my 12 year old saw the red spinning with white back plate, he hoped it was going to be MJ676 FT-J flown my Peter Cunningham, who died last year.
By: VoyTech - 27th March 2008 at 12:09
TB546 was FT-E at Zeltweg. Presumably they used a colour profile of the starboard side as pattern, but didn’t know why the number was truncated this way…
By: Collis - 27th March 2008 at 12:01
Where the tailband has been painted out only leaves 646 showing. On the other side you’d expect to find the rest of the code, but they’ve just mirrored it with only 646 showing.
A quick look through ‘the bible’ shows only about 3 mark IXs ending in 646.
By: VoyTech - 27th March 2008 at 11:57
Presumably TB546 with the Sky band overpainted.
By: BlueRobin - 27th March 2008 at 09:37
Tail number looks like “46” (or “4G”) to me
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th March 2008 at 08:50
Nice to see the Spit as a 43 Squadron machine from the “Fighting Cocks” days at Zeltweg, Austria. These were the markings from early 1946. As a matter of interest, what serial number has it been given?
By: DragonRapide - 27th March 2008 at 07:59
Graham-White gates at Hendon
I think the G-W gates have been there for many years; they were pointed out to me, otherwise you would not be likely to spot them as you negotiated the car park entrance!
Nice to see the replicas tidied up!
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