It might help if creaking door could show us mortals the other side (please):)
That piece is from a photo taken from an Argentine museum.
Shouldn’t that have been mentioned at the beginning of the thread!
Would have saved alot of hassle, and does put the provenance in a different light.
Sorry, I wish I had a photo of the other side but this photo was lifted from the Zona Militar forum and is the only one I have seen.
Apologies also for not revealing anything about the origin of the photo or about what aircraft it is supposedly from…
…my reason being that I hoped to definitely identify it as Canberra, and then port / starboard wingtip before the story behind it ‘clouded’ the issue. However it didn’t quite work out as I’d planned as there was still plenty of confusion and somebody spotted the serial / date written on it and put two-and-two together…..and got exactly four!
Clearly port wing. Longer edge of lights goes along wingspan on Canberra – topside camo is dark grey, underside is light aircraft grey, topside wraps round onto underside. How can this be such a long discussion!!
Thank you for the definite ‘port’ identifications (everybody)…..it makes one theory more probable…..but obviously doesn’t prove it!
Testimony from the pilot states that during a turn to port an impact was felt and it was assumed that this was the impact of one of the ‘missiles’ seen being launched a few seconds earlier.
Unlikely to have damaged the starboard wingtip in a turn to port, you see. 🙂
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