RNHF Swordfish.

LS326, I believe, went white over the winter of 1986/7.

Very nice pix. Good to see 326 with those rockets underneath the wings 🙂

And is the Varsity WJ897/G-BDFT, which crashed 14/8/84, or is it WJ945 at Duxford?
Difficult…

Flood.

It was OD with a yellow tail for quite a number of years before the ‘Memphis Belle’ scheme was applied in 1989.

Oooh yes. I’d unremembered that.

Didn’t Sally B also fly in the We’ll Meet Again TV series which was filmed very early 80s – which might explain the solid black triangle rather than a specific unit identifier? Which means we’re looking at about 1981 or thereabouts.

Sally B went Olive Drab for Memphis Belle in 1988/89 so the photos would predate that. I seem to recall that she wore the red tail stripe of the 351st Bomb group with the solid black triangle instead of the blue stripe of the 457th (which she had worn since becoming a warbird in the 70s) for a short period, mid- 1980s?

My (rather incomplete and badly maintained) notes and reference library list LS326 as being repainted ‘late 1980’s‘.
The flying shots will be difficult to pin down except, maybe, by the weather conditions since the crew do the same stand up and salute routine everytime! Somewhere I should have negs of them performing it in poor visability at a rainy Middle Wallop in the late 90’s…

Flood.