Nice colour video from the RAF Jever website showing Brian Iles with the a/c and G/C Powell Sheddon (whos name may be familiar to some readers)

http://www.rafjever.org/93sqnpic656.htm

Not trying to answer the op question but just parking this quote here….

Great videos there. Thanks for posting 🙂

Hello David,

I did wonder if it was connected to Sqn Ldr Brian Iles ownership but it seems a bit obscure. I think it has changed a bit over the years as it seems to have had more wording when it was at Strathallan. Unfortunatley my pic from back then is a bit fuzzy!

That’s great footage Baz. Thanks for posting it. Stewards sure had to be slim to work in that cabin!

Curious now why someone named an all-yellow aeroplane “Ladybird”. I know there are yellow ladybirds but, surely, the colour most associated with that insect is red!

Roger Smith.

Think it may have been red originally, Roger. In the pic in the link it looks darker than yellow certainly. Or maybe the reporter got it the wrong way round and the Heining was the yellow one!

Sorry to hear he had a sad ending. Thanks for the info.

Hey baz

Thanks very much for all that. Sounds like a short though full life. Will try to find out what happened to him.

Can’t quite place which field they would have used for the Flying Circus. It’s not the flattest of areas round here.

The Joan Meakin clip is really interesting too.