cracking evening

Nice run down the A1
No traffic queues to get in
Not too crowded once you’re in
Nice relaxed wander along the flightline and through the hangars
Superb summer’s evening
Plenty of space to park the chairs, picnic and Mrs J (who thoroughly enjoyed the event)
Excellent displays
No traffic to get out
and a quick blast home

Do you need anything else from an airshow??

Well they won’t be starting up and taxiing RW393.

Pinch me somebody and tell me this isn’t TD248 in a new scheme and roaded in, the week before Leg-ends.

Mark

Well according to the RAFM blurb on the Living Museum’s webpage (see Martin’s link), it was restored at Cosford so I think you can discount TD248.

Having said that, the Living Museum example was sporting a rather fetching and obviously new cockpit cover when seen on BBC Breakfast this morning, so I did at first wonder if it was an airworthy airframe

I wonder whether this is destined to become a new “Display” airframe to replace those subsumed by the BBMF spares reclamation programme….

IIRC Generally American manufactured aircraft obtained via the British Purchasing Commission tended to be finished in the ANA equivalent of the standard British Paint colours.

Look out for publications by Dana Bell who has done considerable research and produced monographs on Export Colours

Did anybody notice the picture of Razorback Thunderbolt production in the new Key WW2 air warfare special – notice the batch of Brit camo’d /sky tail banded Jugs – half way down the line – these would have been painted in ANA equivalents of Brit colours.

ps the 262 being towed in the same publication – looks like Switzerland to me – especially the little tractor – does it have a Swiss cross on the reg plate – if so is it the same one pictured elsewhere in the special – ie that now in Deutches Museum

Nice picture at the exposition – but what that twin tail in the background –it has a slight Potez feel to it although G-xxxx registered.

High Speed Spitfire

cheers Daz

That’s better – that’s how she should look – dark blue with a gold cheat line and no roundels(why are they called cheat lines????)

stipfire

but then I am dyslexic

have got said book….

well worth a read, although don’t expect a detailed technical account of the actual rebuild. – it’s very much in the vein of the “Black 6” book by Russ Snadden outlining restoration from start to finish with emphasis on the struggle to acquire it, research of identity, history of airframe, research of pilots who flew the plane, colour schemes, the people who rebuilt it/her and the search for the necessary parts etc etc

Also interesting reference within it to two unsucessful searches for the elusive Patna Hurricane V6846 as well as a tantalising passing reference to “three Spitfires in the jungle adjacent to Burma” ,somewhere within travelling distance of Shillong

on a completely unrelated issue – i think I saw the camo’d Spitfire Prototype Replica on a trailer on Horseguards Parade yesterday – any idea what it was there for?

Where’s the Hunter?

Have I missed it?

Beautiful to the eye, a pilot’s aeroplane, an export sucess

Isn’t each one of the above reason enough for it to be included in what is after all supposed to be a pantheon of British aviation. (No offence but why is the CF100 in there?)