Right, after further investigation I think I have an answer.
Looking closely at the various pictures of dayglow marked Gnats, the tailplane fairings were painted silver, on the silver painted aircraft, and painted dayglow on the gray painted aircraft.

The interpretation of the pictures has been complicated by noticing that the gray painted aircraft, also have a gray panel behind the fuselage serial number.

No doubt somebody will prove me wrong, but thanks all of you for your help and advice.

Cabbage

On a lighter note, I hope the Bearcat’s wheels were deliberately positioned that way, and not left like that because of a terrible misshap. It would certainly make for an interesting landing with them in that position.

How about asking the owners of a certain bunch of overpaid, underemployed so called sportstsmen, from Manchester, to help look after the Ambassador After all the type features very heavily in that Club’s history ie. Munich.

This could be from a “V” bomber. It has the four housings for the secondary cartridges (on opposite sides of the main body) to incrementaly increase the upwards acceleration of the seat, to enable it to clear the tail.

The conical housing at the right end of the gun fitted into a housing in the cockpit floor. the other end may have the housing for the initiater cartridge, which was spring operated, and held in the safe position by a tapered sear and a safety pin.

This type of ejection gun probably have two tubes mounted one inside the other, fitted inside the cylindrical body shown in the picture.

I have pictures of this Mosquito, taken at the Week’s museum, in Florida, in 1986.
It had one engine displayed seperately, and I seem to remember seeing various signatures and messages written on the inside of the bombdoors.
It had by then been painted in camouflage.

Cabbage

Please keep sending more pictures. Always liked the Beaufighter, in all its disguises.

Your problems of access to certain areas of the Beaufighter remind me of the convolutions required to access certain areas of the aircraft I worked on, namely the Vulcan and the Buccaneer.

Groundcrew to pilot after he was unable to retract the undercarriage after take-off (a frequent occurance with certain serial numbers of Buccaneers).
“Did you press the undercarriage up button hard enough ?”

Anyone familiar with the cockpit layout of the Mk.2 Buccaneer, will no the button I mean.