It was indeed involved in a fatal accident but the damaged airframe was recovered to the UK and is now being converted into the first Tr.16 as G-PBIX for Pemberton-Billing LLC by Airframe Assemblies at Sandown

as the Tr XVI never “existed” before- does this bring certification issues – or as the XVI was a IX with a Packard Merlin and there were Tr IXs built is this not an issue?

Erm…..you don’t suppose Altsel is really TIGHAR do you? 😉

Funny you should say that

A is 19 letters behind T
L is 3 letters in front of I
T is 13 letters in front of G
S is 11 letters in front of H
E is 4 letters in front of A
L is 6 letters behind R

add the numbers together and you get 6, which is also the number of letters in TIGHAR and ALTSEL. 6 is also the day of the month on which the plane crashed and is the first two numbers of the plane’s serial number.

Bit fishy methinks…………….

Don’t try any fast taxis with it, Graham :diablo:

Well done Elliott

Seems a shame if the original RAFM tail cannot be amalgamated with your project to create a whole in due course.

Hopefully common sense might prevail if the result of your work was a complete front 2/3rds completed to museum standard.

another angle

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=13142384&src=news

And one on Deep Sky and the Fortress

In the same issue of Scale Aircraft Modelling, a letter from Dave Fleming comments on Fortress Mk I colour schemes. The colours were described rather accurately by Michael J. F. Bowyer in his book Bombing Colours 1937-1973. The book is long out of print, but is based on colour observations made by the author himself. Fortress Is are said to have worn a Dark Green/Dark Earth/Sky finish, with medium grey codes, until late June
1941. Before operations started in July, the Dark Earth was replaced by a dark grey shade and the codes became Sky. At the beginning of August 1941, the aircraft’s undersurfaces received a new colour. Quoting Bowyer: ‘It was Azure Blue, which became the standard colour until their withdrawal from European operations …. although over their period of service I managed to see all of 90 Squadron’s aircraft, I never at any time saw any in the supposed Deep Sky finish, and none after July wearing brown-green camouflage’.

Claudio Narduzzi, via e-mail

Except for the fact that the original Boeing production drawings quote “Deep Sky Blue” – see the website below for the drawings and the picture on that website is surely a factory shot .

http://amair4raf.blogspot.com/

Did the Syrians use Sky Type S? :confused:

Dunno – can’t you pop over there and check – those Mk22s are still waiting in the desert to be rescued……………….

Along with the Syrian PzKfw VI Tigers

Can we talk about late war Luftwaffe Colours now – specifically the non existent “RLM84” colour which everybody says is the same colour as Sky (or should that be Sky Type L – for Luftwaffe)

And how about this one as well

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/message/1239906340/RAF+Dark+Earth-+two+diferent+shades–

surely not.