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John Glanville

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  • in reply to: Question about Tower Bridge Hunter XF442 #1224472
    John Glanville
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    XF442

    @Starfire ,
    My sources were a couple of artists renderings of XF442 and XE624 ( Flt Lt Pollock’s personal aircraft ) .
    As I said in my previous post I was stationed at RAF Wittering in the early 70’s but by then 1 Sqn was already flying Harriers . All the photo’s that I had taken there have unfortunately been lost , so I have nothing to work from . What makes this even worse is the fact that every now and again I had Fire Picket / guard duty and I have been in the 1 sqn crew room several times but never noticed the painting that was made .
    I am also wondering if all I Sqn aircraft were given the ” kill ” marking or just XF442 ( and XE624 ) . I also read on another site ( don’t know which one but I bookmarked most of them ) that the Tower Bridge marking was in day-glo and judging by the second photo this appears to be on a white background – also that it was painted under the canopy and not next to the pilots name .

    John

    Edit : Have changed the registration and added white to the wingtips and also added Flt Lt Sim’s name to the aircraft . This may not be the name that was on the aircraft but then neither was the ” kill ” marking .
    Here’s a screenshot : http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1523/xf442closeup.th.jpg

    in reply to: Question about Tower Bridge Hunter XF442 #1226448
    John Glanville
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    XF442

    Hi Gents ,
    I am a new member to these forum’s and was interested to read about this Hunter . In the Flight Sim section I have opened a topic over XF442 as I have recreated this aircraft for FS9 and FSX , although after looking again at this model I have noticed the white wingtips and that XF442 is painted black ( not major changes luckily ) .
    Couldn’t resist re-enacting Flt Lt pollock’s day trip to London and have posted some screenshots here : http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=91305
    I also painted XE624 with the Tower Bridege ” kill ” marking , which I understood to be Flt Lt Pollock’s ” personal ” aircraft .
    As I was stationed at RAF Wittering in the early 70’s there are a couple of 45 and 58 sqn repaints as well .

    John Glanville

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