What happened to the Brigand fuselage that was at NEAM?

Mark

Went to the Bristol Collection at Kemble IIRC

Strange this one should re-surrect now – look what popped up on PPrune last week

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=279464

There were ex-Vietnamese F-5s in both Poland and Czechoslovakia, supplied to enable the aircraft industry in those countries to examine Western aircraft construction and technology. there is no doubt that other US aircraft were examined, but little evidence (so far) that many, if any were test flown in Russia.

There are some ‘dodgy’ photos on the web showing, amongst other things, a Vampire in Soviet markings (alleged ex-Iraqi) and of course the fabled Russian Tomcats (allegedly supplied by Iran).

The shapes seen at a Russian air base were convincing mock-ups

Very nice, but as the web page belongs to a fictional country it isn’t a definitive answer.

It certainly gives an example of what it might have looked like.

Moggy

It is the style that warning signs were before the modern pictogram ones came in – althouth I’m not sure they would have had the aircraft sillouette either.

Just the warning triangle with the text in a rectangle underneath.

Very interesting Dustyone! I assumed from the b/w photos they were in RAF camouflage of dk earth/dk green with yellow undersides, but the colours you describe make more sense. Can you confirm the undersides as ‘duck egg blue’, rather than duck egg green (alias ‘Sky type S’) and do you, or anyone have any photos?

The colour shot above is in that scheme (Temperate Sea Scheme)

Admiralty Orders in 1942(ish) stated that FAA Comms types had to be painted thus (or with yellow undersides) – superceding AMOs which said Green/Earth

Pictures of RAF Expeditors are pretty rare – there is a well used photo of an HB serialed aircraft in camouflage in SEAC markings, but the underside colour is a slight mystery – by the current APs of the time it should have been yellow undersides, but SEAC had their own rules for somethings.

I doubt sky blue, and wonder is it was actually Sky or Medium Sea Grey.

Later RAF ones flew in natural metal with SEAC roundels.

RN wartime Expeditors were in Temperate Sea Scheme of Extra dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate grey over Yellow undersides. Some had yellow outlined serials. Post war they were natural metal or dark blue

Which reminds me – I forgot to say that BS381C-241 was later re-numbered to 641. So don’t get confused, 241 and 641 are the same thing.

Other way about – was 641, later 241.