Mirage III and A-4 were pretty quick – at least 360/sec, if not slightly more.

Etienne, a nice pic of A17-494 in Northern Territory in 1942.
But we need to focus on a realistic scheme for its wartime service in 1944, as I mentioned above being overall training yellow.
Attached is the aircraft’s RAAF E/E88 “status card”. It had a short WWII flying career indeed (perhaps why it survived) – for apparently only 2 weeks in Feb 1944!

24/11/43 delivered to RAAF – brought on charge at De Hav.
9/2/44 received 2 Aircraft Park from De Hav.
13/2/44 received by 1EFTS (Parafield).
28/2/44 taxy head-on into A17-378 (??) at Parafield.
6/3/44 ‘E’ storage at 1 EFTS crash repairs.
13/3/44 ‘C’ storage at 1 EFTS. [presumably repaired after crash and stored in a serviceable condition for later use].
7/10/44 transferred storage at Tamworth ex 1 EFTS

…basically then in storage until postwar use in 1951.

Probably – it has those oddly positioned wing roundels.

Go down to the keys and drink rum…:)

park one at 30000ft north of tabruk.

That would be Tabuk.

This is great stuff Syd, well done.

The WW1 stuff at Kew isn’t what I’d call extensive. It’s alright for operational squadrons but the training squadrons in the UK are almost totally forgotten in their records.

I have found that any historical records from training squadrons is almost non-existent. Am I wrong on this – or have I just been looking in the wrong places?
I have always thought that an Air Britain-type publication on RFC training units would be a valuable and unique product to fill a lot of gaps, and there would be a good market.

The four Hornet disply is very impressive going by the one I saw at Amberley last year. Max

Yes – was very impressive, but no pyros this year due public having to cross runway from the car parks. But a crowd pleaser – they were v low on the Sunday over the 2 Squadron hangar and crowd.