If Americans think we shouldn’t mind if they paint French tail markings on an RAF aircraft, presumably they wouldn’t mind a Mustang with American stars on the wings and Russian stars on the fuselage.

I do know the French fin flash was normally actually on the rudder, but was/is it always rudder and not fin?

Putnam Miles book on ebay now.

A day and a half to go and already £51!

Herbert, you could try these two.

http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/

http://www.modelfixings.co.uk/

BA screws are still regularly used in modelmaking.

Tea, large, strong (very).
Repeat until somebody who can drive a kitchen comes home.

Does somebody look after you, Al? 🙂

And if not, why?

He managed to hide the mossie …

It wasn’t hidden if you knew where to look for it. 🙂 It spent some time in one of the blister hangars at Panshanger, although I didn’t know then that it was the prototype.

As Bruce said, design work on the DH99, an enlarged Sabre-powered Mossie was started. It was later renumbered to DH101. They were then told that Sabres wouldn’t be available and Griffons would have to be used. As the performance would have been lower it was abandoned.

Construction started on the DH102, a lower performance night bomber with Griffons or Merlins to carry a 5,000lb bomb load. It was abandoned when the Hornet took priority.

Despite my admiration for all things de Havilland, they do seem to have had a bit of a blind spot about rear fuselage strength. IIRC, one or more of the Albatrosses (Albatri?) suffered the same problem.

Not really relevant to this thread but looking at ML796 yesterday I said “Wassat under the wingtips?” Complete waste of time as I knew the two people I was with wouldn’t have a clue. So, what are those bulges under the wings? They’re even more obvious now as the floats currently aren’t fitted.

By the looks of that, Steve, I would say you’ve cracked it!
What are they. (It seems I’m going to have to start wearing my glasses when I use the PC, or get a bigger screen).