Stepwilk, I´m with you there. I´ve finally watched the start up of the BMW 801 posted by FHC on Facebook. This was absolutely oil smoke, not over rich. Oil smoke is blue-ish in colour, the over rich smoke is very black!

Somewhere earlier in the this thread I was harping on about an in – service shot of MS 902. I´ve now found it again, even though it is not from the same source as I originally got the picture. Here is the same picture, courtesy of http://www.flugheimur.is

This picture is taken after the aircraft left the service, or on the 6th of July 1946 when the RAF turned RAF Station Reykjavik over to the Icelanders. On the day, there was an airshow, and this picture is probably taken on that occasion.

hehehehe It is all computer generated. No aircraft was hurt in the making of this video :eek::D:D

PeeDee,
I´m certainly not the greatest fan of composites when it comes to aircraft construction, but your version of how bad it is surpasses my own pessimistic view by a great margin 😮

A bit hard to read, but could the serial be E629? If it is, it should narrow things down a bit.

Vampire T-11 and Piston Provost.

The picture is labeled Vampire T11 so that is not too hard:D:D

Here’s one taken by my uncle around 1940/41 at Reyjavik. Before that he had been at AASF HQ Reims during the Battle of France. He was later killed in Palestine in 1942. Helping out moving a bomb on the airfield, on his days leave!

Dave

G-ASEA, that Christmas Card is of enormous interest to me. I´ll be sending you a PM!