Could be anyone of a number of airframes – scrapped Nimrods (MRs and AEWs) or possibly the Comet fuselage that was ex-Duxford

Not quite a Proctor, but there was also a Vega Gull used in the Middle East in Coastal Command colours, predominantely white.

Where do you take your shots from? Not being local to Prestwick, but an occasional visitor to the area, I usually end up near the BAE factory. Looks like you shoot from somewhere on the terminal side.

Has anyone got a Sea Glad?

I don’t know of one.

Miggers

Yeovilton are rebuilding one.

Pardon me if I’m wrong but that looks like a Meteor F. 3. It’s got curved wingtips, whilst the wings themselves continue for a fair bit outboard of the Derwents. It also appears to have the smaller nacelles of early and mid-production F. 3s (although the last batch were fitted with F.4 nacelles). Given that 222 were equipped with the Meteor 3 for a while post-war, it doesn’t seem unlikely that it is an F. 3.

It’s got F4-style nacelles (continue back and forward of the wings, but the curved wing tips don’t neccessarily make it a mk 3.

The first few mk 4s were produced with the ‘F3’ style wing tips (making it virtually impossible to tell apart late F3s and early F4s) – EE525 was apparently the first with the ‘clipped’ wings.

As for a Meteor F4 in camouflage with codes, there is a picture of EE464 in full Day Fighter scheme colours in April 1946 wearing the codes ‘ON-F’ of 124 Squadron (albeit apparently serving with 56 at the time the pic was taken)

This is reproduced in the Ian Allan Post war Military Aircraft: 2 book on thhe Meteor, page 16.

An intruiging mystery John – you say it had ‘C’ roundels – were they visible on the hanging down bits of fabric – the fin flash looks like the post-war (‘D’) marking.

Had a quick look in Air Arsenal North America, and it only mentions the LG552 one. No mention in the Flintham/Thomas codes book of a suitable ‘FT’ used post-war – nearest was 10 ANS, which used ‘FFT’

Hopefully someoneelse can come up with more!

BTW, here’s LG552!

This picture was sent to me today by my Argentine contact……..has anyone seen this before?

Not seen that one before – and not sure if it’s taken during the war. The FAA A4Cs used blue and yellow for ID markings – one theory is the blue replaced the yellow, which tended to blend into the light colours used by the A4Cs (there is a photo of one A-4C with the fin stripe overpainted) – but there are also photos of Daggers with blue bands as well (definitely during the war as both were shot down)

RThe drop tank is interesting because the only Argentine A-4 I cab recall in thiese colours was a CANA A-4B after the war – the drop tanks were painted exactly that way,

Hi tache3,

I read reviews and visited shops to get some hands on and eventually went for the Nikon D50 which i have been very happy with. This was my first slr and i found it very easy to get to grips with. I have since purchase a second hand D70 as i was fed up with having to change lenses all the time.

It took me a couple of reads to realise you menat a second body as opposed to a replacement – I was wondering, as the D70 has interchangeable lenses as well!!

Look out for good deals on the D50 – now that the D40 is in, you can get new D50s at reduced prices new (I got a D50 plus18-55 and 55-200 for £400).

Went for the D50 rather than the D40 as it’s slightly bigger and suits my big hands!