Surprised no one ever painted up a Spit in this scheme

It’s the RealAir Spitfire, once a benchmark for Flightsim (FSX) now superceeded by the technically accurate A2A aircraft.
The scenery is probably West Malling.

http://www.realairsimulations.com/spit08/intro.php?page=spit08_intro

or course, you would want to fly from Duxford, no problem…

I can’t get this Duxford scenery to install. Can you help with a full idiots guide?

Please lets have a photo of you now? (just to compare):D

Abit of alright if memory serves :diablo:

I might have changed a bit the last 20 years though 🙂 It was quite funny to find this thread so I thought I might as well help clear it up 😉

Please lets have a photo of you now? (just to compare):D

Nice to put a face to the name! :p

I might have changed a bit the last 20 years though 🙂 It was quite funny to find this thread so I thought I might as well help clear it up 😉

Nice to put a face to the name! :p

I think Rolf Meum was flying with OFMC then, so something tells me it was his daughter’s name… :confused:

It is indeed the name of Rolf Meum’s daughter. 🙂 Here’s the proud little girl (me) :p
Don’t mind the date imprinted on the photo, the camera was off.

…Incidentally, the pic of “RAB” at the top of the thread looks like a painting, as distinct from a digitally-drawn image. Is it? And if so, who executed it? I’s a very nice piece of work. (Whether or not it’s digital it’s awfully nice.)

S.

I think it’s a screenshot from a game. Maybe Microsoft Flight Simulator??

This is another, fixed up by me

…Incidentally, the pic of “RAB” at the top of the thread looks like a painting, as distinct from a digitally-drawn image. Is it? And if so, who executed it? I’s a very nice piece of work. (Whether or not it’s digital it’s awfully nice.)

S.

Having a look at G-FIRE and the blue red and white looks familiar!

Ah yes, the “Mayfield Kestrel”…Always liked how the Poirot production team worked all the splendid period (or near-period) hardware into that show. Spit, Rapide, DC-3, Beech 18, Stampe…and all those nice old cars and locomotives, too…

One of the three or four GRP Spit pylon airframe replicas that came to Canada wore AH codes for a time–the one mounted atop the “Spitfire Emporium” aviation giftshop in Kitchener, Ontario. Later it was repainted as NH357 VZ:F of 412 Sqn RCAF to honour local vet, the late Charley Fox of CHAA who had flown Spits with 412 during the war. I think it’s still there, but was looking a little droopy last i saw it!

It strikes me that the Emporium, or the neighbouring K-W Surplus store, had a framed photo on show depicting an actual Mk.IX flying with AH codes…MH434?

S.

Just a little heads up to you Mark12 – never holding back on sharing any images (this one of unknown origin though) here or anywhere else. Many times I’ve come across people who don’t want to share at all, or want to be paid or given so and so for sharing their stuff. I think it was four years ago you had a picture I could use for a project and you simply said “just give a notice so and so below the picture and it’s fine”. What a breath of fresh air that was compared to other episodes I dealt with. Or as Tim said when he sent me a picture “don’t need any credits, happy to give you the picture!” 😀

High-altitude scheme, adapted from the all-over grey scheme she carried for filming of an episode of Poirot in the late 1980s.

Post WW2 colors by the looks of it?

MH434 has worn Norwegian colours at least once.

Indeed it has.

Here is a magnificent shot from a unique vantage point taken in September 1989.

Apart from the date that I applied there is nothing on the reverse of this 10×8 print.

Anybody who knows the photographer please shout.

Mark

MH434 has worn Norwegian colours at least once.

I think Rolf Meum was flying with OFMC then, so something tells me it was his daughter’s name… :confused:

Good bet.

Didn’t Mark Hanna date a Norwegian girl around that timeframe? (I could be way off here)

T J

I think Rolf Meum was flying with OFMC then, so something tells me it was his daughter’s name… :confused:

PL965 wore those colors as part of the 50th anniversary of the RNoAF airshow at Gardermoen in 1994.

T J

Where did that name come from. Silje.

Who flew a Spit called that?

Or is it just “made up?”

PL965 wore those colors as part of the 50th anniversary of the RNoAF airshow at Gardermoen in 1994.

T J