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KB976 was delivered direct to Strathallan from Canada in 1975, this one flight was obviously made at the same time as PA474 was established on the airshow circuit.

I think you’ll find G-BCOH/KB976 had a stop-over elsewhere in Scotland (Edinburgh?) after the ferry flight from Canada and then made the short hop to Strathallan. Just such a shame it never made it back into the air with either Strathallan or Charles Church.

Fantastic pictures from a time gone by. The Javelin was Jeff Hawke’s as was the Meteor stored with it, F4 VT229. The Javelin did indeed go to a better life at Flixton. The Meteor was loaned to Newark where it was placed in their Meteor line-up. Later sold to Kermit Weeks it is at Polk City, Florida in store. That Amiot does look like a Ju52 3m doesn’t it…;)

T9 was out at Shoreham for a funeral flypast in company with the Hangar 11 Mustang.

Oh for the opportunity to have it spruced up a touch and put well out on the grass on a sunny day for photography.

Mark

Ah but can you imagine the radiation cordon around it? Flashing beacons, geiger counters, shelter marshalls, no lone zones, audio warning sirens, a fire engine, goon suits, fullers earth everywhere (just for the sake of it). Oh and the headlines…

“Spitfire historian zapped by mutant death rays from unstable poison warplane as onlookers scream in shock horror death plunge for cover as pith helmetted long short and white sock wearing pensioner ‘Indiana Jones’ Arnold gasps “save the data plate, it’ll go again” before evaporating on hallowed Spitfire 19 Sqn dispersal area and being marked only by a few frazzled ashes and a lonely monopod”… 😀

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In a lighty up way, not a radioactive death kind of way!

Yeah, Radioactive instuments killed a lot of Aircrew in WWII…

NOT! :rolleyes:

It’s amazing how some of these veterans escaped the dreaded “glowing death” and managed to live on into the next century… and without growing a hump on their back or an extra head, elephant man style…

Incredible pictures Brian and the lighting is just unbelievable. Where did you get it? We could really use some up our end then maybe I wouldn’t keep sticking sharp objects into my fingers by mistake!!!! 😮

Great scheme and very accurate by the look of it. Nice pictures, I think I once bumped into the photographer that’s credited on the official page…;)