Good scoop Darren! Great to see a Spit with tropical filter and in desert camouflage, in view that BBMF’s AB910 is being repainted this winter as Polish 303 Sqn. ‘RF-D’ ‘Donald Duck’.

Talking of Autocars, I thought you might like to see two models I built from very rare Lincoln International kits of the Auster Autocar in 1/32nd scale to represent G-ARUG as she is today and G-AOIY as she was in the 1970s.
The kits had no interior so I scratch-built floors, seats, seat-belts etc. These kits fetch around £40-50 when one comes up on E.bay!

And heres another Tiger moth SOW, my sister with Skybolt at the controls!!! Sywell mid seventies at a guess.

This is G-APVT again and can be no later than 1973 as that was the year she was written off in a mid-air collision.

525 – the first Tiger Moth, G-APVT, was part of The Barnstormers Flying Circus and was written-off the following year after this shot was taken, being totally destroyed in a mid-air collision with Rollason Beta G-ATLY on 29th September 1973.

….and another one!

Legends 1995

Superb and with Raymond Baxter commentating! I was there and was wondering if it showed the P-38 crash?

Thanks Andy,
I think you may be right; the sequence being the painting of civil colours getting a ‘period’ ‘K’ first, then later corrected to the right ‘L’…

Andy IS right! G-AMRK was painted as “K8032” at Filton in the mid ’50s, but when Shuttleworth stripped her down and examined the framework, they found “L8032” stencilled throughout and consequently restored her to those beautiful 72 Squadron Flight Commander’s markings with the yellow fin and correct serial and flew as such in 1975. It’s about time we saw “L8032” painted back on this machine in RAF colours. :rolleyes:

Excellent stuff ‘Mark’, pure Shuttleworth nostalgia. That Comper Swift is now actually based there and I would guess by the state of the grass in the Pou shot that this was taken earlier than the rest, during the ‘grazing cows between shows’ days!! Now your next challenge is to find even earlier Shuttleworth photos, perhaps when the Bristol Fighter had an incorrect RAF ‘D-type’ roundel and the Tomtit was painted blue and gold as G-AFTA…ah, those were the days! :rolleyes: