Yes a 73Sqn. scheme would look superb on the Glad. It realy does need to be back in a 1930’s RAF scheme. Whilst the Malta scheme is nice it would be inaccurate as “Faith, Hope and Charity” were Sea Gladiators.

Has anyone got a Sea Glad?

I don’t know of one.

Miggers

Giving Typhoons a run for their money eh!

That’ll teach ’em:D 😀 😀

Wasn’t the original DeH 110 poo-pooed by the RAF in favour of the Jav?.

A sort of “Oh no,we can’t use that .It’s a naval aeroplane you know,just like that Buccaneer thing”

On the colour scheme thing,to see her in her fleet colours will be nice.I rather liked the D.3 scheme too.

Miggers:)

I’ve not been myself yet but it sounds good.

I know the building is huge.I spied it on the horizon last year form about 6 miles away on our approach from the Potteries to the airshow.I remember thinking “What the hell’s that over there?”:eek: and as we got closer I realised
it was the new building on the airfield.

On this rust buisness,it sounds like there’s been a shortage of funds.
I’m a paint sprayer by trade and use industrial coatings a lot.A full 3 coat offshore finish,that is a coat of zinc rich primer to 75microns thick,a “filler” coat of highbuild primer to 125microns thick and finally a topcoat to 75microns thickness,giving a total of 275microns minimum DFT and in 2k material costs around £12 per litre of paint.

Some of our customers like a very high gloss polyurethane topcoat finish.
For that we use C137v2 Resistex which is a Military spec paint(yes,I’ve used
BS 381C paint.356 Golden Yellow,RAF Rescue Yellow to most folks,only last week) and costs around £18 per litre.

I’m hoping to go next month for a look-see and take son-in-law to look at real aeroplanes instead of the ones he goes on holiday on.:diablo:

Mark:)

Great stuff guys.

I’ve a load of stuff I shot at the Lincs Lanc bash last year including some
video clips.

I’ll upload ’em over the week if I can figure out how.

Miggs

Jeez.

That place certainly gets the old juices flowing.
The Spit looks as if it was parked up after filming BoB and hasn’t flown since.
I reckon if she was started up you’d be sneezing for a month with all the dust
that blew off her.:D

Those Buchons and that new DB601.Hmmmmmmm.

I think I’d repaint the two-pew Buchon in her BoB colours.Although not strictly accurate,I think more people would relate to it rather than if done in the original Spanish airforce colours.

Mark

Always thought the FD.2 was a great looking aircraft, anyone have any ideas on why it had such a long undercarriage thus causing a restricted forward view?

I’m not sure but I’ve got both the FD2 and BAC 221 in Fs2004 and that long u/c makes for some very high aoa landings!!

I’ve also got both in model form.The FD2 is the old Frog kit which is pretty accurate in dimensions and outlines and with a little work a nice model can be made from it.
The BAC 221 is the “Whirlybird” vac-form.A bit basic but it looks good in outline and has a full whitemetal u/c and a good decal sheet.
I thought of doing a bit of a diorama with the Resitech TSR2 I also have and the FD2 and ‘221.
Sort of a British prototypes theme to it.
The FD at Cosford(WG777) is in very nice condition,although she has no engine fitted(look up the spout and you can see out the intakes-bit like the Frog model).

There is a website out there with some very good pics of WG774 in her ‘221 form as she’s now at Yeovilton with the rest of the test a/c’s associated with the Concorde programme.
I’ll find it and post a link for you.

Mark:cool:

I think that because of it’s uniqueness, power and grace, the Mosquito was most people’s favourite performer at airshows, it certainly was mine.
I can’t remember exactly the circumstances in which I learnt of the accident, I’d heard that a WW2 a/c had crashed at an airshow, but had no knowledge of what it was, or the fate of the aircrew.
I recall seeing the footage on the news and seeing the unmistakeable shape of the Mossie go in, I realised then what it was and that the crew could not have survived, it hurt more than any other accident that I have witnessed on the telly, ( the Firefly was the worst as I was only a few hundred yards away from where it happened ).
I was at FL on the saturday when RR299 was together with the P-38 for what I didn’t realise was to be the last time, making my video footage very poignant indeed.
I didn’t realise that RR299 was about to be donated to the the BBMF, I knew that they wanted to get their hands on a Mossie, but always assumed at the time, that they had something stashed away somewhere that was in reasonable condition.
Somewhere I have some video footage of it flying with the DH88 Comet, but I thought that I filmed this at Mildenhall rather than OW.

I saw her at Cossie,must have been ’94 or ’95 and Steve came in for his first pass down the display line in customary style,”clipping the grass”.
As usual he gave a superb display.

Strangely enough,cousin Spadegrip and I were only discussing RR299 at last year’s Lincs Lanc bash.He said that the BBMF should have got their hands on her at the end of the ’96 season.
Incidentally,a big cheer for Clive and Shiney at last year’s bash.Their last displays on the Spit and Hurri were 100% superb.

Mark:D