I have just found a big postcard of RR299 and RS712 air to air in my collection.
Its now on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&item=230038982267&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

No video Cees of the Halifax ,I knew a member of the team and he only had still photos…….including the one of the bra on the aerial which was placed by the divers as a joke for when the aircraft surfaced !

My collection involves flying kit, ie masks,googles,gloves, flight suit some of which I use when flying ! Got hooked on the die cast models as well mostly Corgi.

I am going to start putting up my collection of aviation books , postcards,photos and some aircraft parts on ebay soon.
Will be starting tonight with British research and development aircraft book by Ray Sturtivant . and a 1969 Lightning tie,look under seller garlor5

That clip is really impressive Plazz because for the first time I can truly understand why all the hard work is being done to keep all sorts of classic jets in taxy condition. A complex piece of engineering alive instead of being crushed and melted down in to ingots. Well done to all the hard workers.

I like the chance to add to info from my experiences,catch up with old friends, make new ones.Also enjoy the sharing of info.

I dislike the trolls who drop in here stir things up under a pretend name while claiming to be an expert and then sit back and watch the chaos.

“Most swimmers used briefs but Hans was shy and choose the Spitfirebathingmachine”

Thanks for the note regarding the paint colours,put my enquiry under puzzled not angry. It is a legacy of painting loads of Airfix kits in the same two camo shades in my teenage years. Sure it would be good to have the Hampden undercover but my eyes have been opened by the series of posts by 320psi when he talks of the cost involved in resiting a relatively small building for the two Lightnings. Good luck to the museum in Canada if they have plans for a building.

I was up here at the time, the flying co ordinator was a local aviator Tim Griffiths. In his own collection of pics there is a superb series of air to airs of the Mosquito over Inverness and the Kessock bridge. A pity that I do not have copies. The actual sequence in the film is very short ,basically the Mosquito beats up a field where Italian prisoners of war are working.

It is also possible that RR299 took part in an air display while it was at Inverness.