Ian Kennedy without a doubt. Although he is mostly known for his comic work he has done a few prints of Phantoms for the collectors market, I have his “Black Mike” print.

In the old days when vintage aircraft were required for filming in most cases the production had to make do with whatever was available, Harvards for Spitfires, that sort of thing, but with CGI today you can reproduce anything very realistically so its annoying when they make mistakes like this with Mk IX Spits in gray / green camouflage when they should be earlier models.
Yes I know its fantasy, but they made a big deal about the authenticity of the cabinet war room set so they dont really have an excuse.
As for the new “Dulux Daleks”…… well, if it ‘aint broke, dont fix it.:(

There’s a new mini series called “Battlefields” being published in the next month or so in the states by the “Dynamite” comics company.
Its written by the same british guy that did the revival of “Battler Britton” mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
Its going to be 9 issues with at least the first three being British WWII aviation stories.
The covers & synopsis so far for the first two indicate a Wellington Story with Beaufighters thrown in for good measure.
Here’s the cover to the first issue.

Nice shots paticularly the Hunter.
I see that the BBMF have reinstated the “Last of the many” name on the side of the fuselage of PZ865.
I think that this should have been kept whatever the colour scheme she wore in the same manner as their serial numbers are as it intrinsic to this unique airframe, but does anyone know what the white marking behind it is ?

from http://www.jackmalloch.com

1979 to 1982
Jack is very involved in the SAS bridge-blowing ‘Operation Cheese’ in north-eastern Zambia – September 1979
Jack makes the first flight in the renovated Spitfire Mk 22 – March 1980
Jack’s CL-44 is destroyed by fire at Salisbury airport – February 1982.
Jack is killed while flying the Spitfire Mk 22 on the last day of filming the documentary ‘Pursuit of a Dream’ – March 1982.

DVD link there as well. First I had heard of him, sounds an interesting man to say the least !! The WWW site says that a biography will be out soon plus it has some snaps of the MK22.

Does anyone know if this DVD is actually the “Spitfire pursuit of a dream” programme or different as it looks to be called “Jack Malloch – Tango romeo” which is the title of his biography and implies that it is a DVD version of this.

Was nice to see a pair of Centurous powered Furies cavorting about the sky again….:)

I think you will find that only WG655 (the two seater) was Centaurous powered.
It was the first time I had seen a re-engined Sea Fury fly & I much prefer the engine sound of the original, it has more of a ‘whistle’ note to it whilst the Wright engined version sounded a bit more “chuggy” to my ears, but I agree it was good to see two in the air together. Hopefully we will see a resurgence in the type in europe now that there are a few either currently on the circuit or shortly will be. (CAA permitting of course :dev2:)