And Spitfire to (should make JBS and Mark 12 H A P P Y) – Can anyone supply and Id for the Spit in Germany, my copy of Fighter Command Losses is at home!
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2857571
If *********** get the Hurricane wreckage, it will be flying in 10 years!
Opps – Lists of Accidents
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/list_of_nuclear_accidents
Opps wrong forum 🙁 N/T)
N/t
Opps Typo
Should be Z5140 Coded C (and as painted)
Dunno where you got your info from (but the date is the same!), both Air Britain Serials and Shores et al have Z5140 shot down on this date.
“Why has it been kept such a secret?”
Prehaps one of the UK Magazines had agreed an exclusive deal? maybe we should wait and see the June Issues?
Actually it was in Malta the Spitfire Years by Shores, Cull and Malizia
Tuesday 10th March 1942
One of eight 126 Sqn Hurricanes which took of from Takali
Sgt Jack Mayall was shot down; his Hurricabe Z1540 (Coded C) crashed near Qormi, and the Australian was killed. It was believed he was the 24th victim of Hpt. Karl-Heinz Krahl, Kommandeur of II/JG3
126 Sqn had ‘HA’ code at the time
BTW Mark 12, there is another picture of Z2491 ‘HA-D’ on page 15 of this book.
It is a real Hurricane that was shot down over Malta coded ‘C’ (Pilot killed). If anyone has ‘ Malta the Hurricane Years’ then they will find the real ID there it is in the Z…. range. I have looked up and found the Serial. but do not have the info with me at the moment.
The could also probably do a Spitfire as HA-C is they wanted! as the Sqn converted to them after Hurris
James
Re: “we’ve sold out of Gladiator”
Interesting.. I feel an e-bay moment coming up! (only joking)
Paul
Very Interesting thread.. It would have made a great article in Flypsat (my intentional spelling for it from now on) and shame Robert Rundall is not around to add his 2 penneth and comments.
So now we even have the contributions from a pilot in the film and all sorts of other stuff (all in very short space of time and worldwide) and you can buy just amount anything would ever were to want (however obsure) on e-bay and in the comfort of your own home!
Isn’t the Internet a wonderful thing. “Mark” how did you do all this investigation/research/purchasing stuff in the dark ages (well before about the mid 1990’s) anyway?
Paul
No.
I think it has now been sold somewhere else in Oz or Nz
I heard that the seller did not have any further contact with buyer/or no money was forthcoming/could not be raised
Paul
It have just worked out it was B E N T W A T E R S
Could cause problems on the Modern Airforces Forum ??
Paul
I am no Mark 1, Mark II or Mark III expert (unlike James) but for reference the Airfix kit was a Mark III !
“Mark”
Thanks – Methinks I need to consult my 2 Land Lease books as this one probbably diverted from RAF order (as a Boston IIIA) so it MAY have had a ‘UK serial’ as well. But of course it never served with the RAF as such
“Mark”
Thanks for sharing these pictures with us
Is that
A-20C 41-19393 Douglas A-20C Havoc ?? (it looks like a 11 at the front?’
Another possibility is 43-9393 – Douglas A-20G-25-DO Havoc
But I ‘think’ I can see a 11
Paul