Although I’m not a fan of CF-104’s… (they remind me far too much of the dark days when our guys at “the pointy end” were reduced to flying INTERCEPTORS at Zero feet with dummy tac-nukes slung underneath) I’m glad you’re actively seeking to repatriate an aircraft that honours the Air Div guys.

In that vein, are you going to do the aircraft up in an operational “low-level” colour scheme? I hope so. The “Rocket-ship” presentation at CWH reminds me way too much of a Bomarc, frankly… with all the bad memories THAT brings back.

If you are going to paint the aircrat – I’d be glad to donate a couple of gallons of paint, or help defray the costs of some accurate markings. Dave O’Malley at VWoC has an amazing source for those, BTW! 😉

page & sycamore were more correct than I.

Over to the Bristol helicopter dude! 😎

Oh, that colonial wit. Don’tcha luv it!

Je ne serai jamais comprendre les anglais 😉

So definitely not Torquay?

OH, Frightfully, Old Trout… Tor-KEE is delghtful – lovely bath-chairs, along with a jolly good cuppa Lapsang Soochong, eh what? :diablo:

I’m thinking AD… is the fuselage on its side?

Here we go…

Thanks, Moze.

Those engines & props look suspiciously like B-29 parts, don’t they? Perhaps one of our more knowledgeable members could clarify… are they part of the Tu-4 “reverse-engineering” effort?

I’ll try and find something a bit more difficult than my usual… likely, tomorrow morning (GMT-5).

Nice to see ACTUAL-type credit being given to the aircraft in Mr. Romaine’s hangar – even the Mk. I replica under construction at Duxford is in fact a Boly Mk. IVT with a “short” nose affixed.

As someone noted above, they are Blenheims in paint-scheme only. 😉

Having been “corrected” by so many Brit enthusiasts over the years, I think it only fair that we use proper nomenclature for restored aircraft, that mayn’t actually BE British in origin. :diablo:

Lately, many folk advertise their aircraft as, e.g. ” Spitfire Mk. V representive of P.O. Percy Prune’s Mk. Ia” – that covers the accuracy of type, and commemorates a particularly significant aircraft which was likely lost over the intervening decades. /rant