James, how could you leave this sinking ship?? 🙁 Have a good time and as you say you are going for ‘a couple of years’, does that mean you are coming back?? No doubt, you will be back on the Forum when you get settled out there…or down there, I should say. Take care my friend!

Certainly did! Here are the Mosquito, Norseman and the Ventura rebuild (Ventura Memorial Flight Association project), progressing slowly but surely.

I can’t believe how much hard work has been put into that Mossie in the Alberta Aviation Museum I was there in 1993 and it was just a wooden fuselage hulk, stripped down to bare wood with the wings stored elsewhere.
Outside were two wrecks of all-yellow RCAF Ansons. Were they still there, or are they doing anything with them?

I would guess that as the Stearman is grounded and in a museum, the civilian registration has been officially cancelled and can be reallocated to another airworthy aircraft. If the Stearman was made airworthy, then it would have to be re-registered. Only a theory?

Acrojets

Okay, here is my contribuition to this F-80 thread – the “Acrojets” aerobatic team from the Fighter School at Williams AFB. Az.

Enjoy!

Thank you, Albert, I just hope the other information (taken from “DH Vampire – The Complete History” by David Watkins) is correct! Especially the part about Paul Mantz!

Yep, that’s all correct. Somewhere I have a b/w photo of this same aircraft painted white and with its civil registration taken somewhere in the States. If I can dig it out, I’ll post it.

Sorry guys, that’s the only shot I have of the Ki-100 in that scheme. I think shortly afterwards they realised this scheme was only applied to a Ki-61 Hein and they repainted in the green scheme for the move to Cosford but it was given the number ’24’ so don’t know if that is significant.

Mark,

Where was the photo taken? I’m sure I’ve seen a restored Do 335 online somewhere.

Thanks for the photo!

Todd

Here is that Do-335 taken ten years later at Oberpfaffenhofen in September 1982, beautifully restored and guess now at NASM.

Hmmm… that would be difficult. The Indian people are very proud of AI’s livery. When a new Landor designed livery was introduced in the late 80s/early 90s to replace the current livery, public annoyance was so great that the old livery was re-introduced.

Here, here, the classic AI livery is superb – just think of all those arches painted on a 777 :rolleyes: