Thanks Air Ministry, can’t beat a good screw!!

This is a fantastic reproduction (I prefer tribute to reproduction) virtually impossible to tell its not real from just even a few feet away. Along with my brother we booked and had the Spitfire on show at the Rolls Royce enthusiasts club annual rally at Rockingham Hall last year. She sat centre stage on our stand surrounded by over 18 vintage Rolls Royce motor cars we brought along to sell. Money well spent with lots of people coming across to look and have their picture taken alongside or sitting in her cockpit. What a nice pair of brothers who own her, their Spitfire is simply magnificent the best I have seen. For the 2013 rally we are thinking of sponsoring a flying display with the real thing, we may even have the Lowestoft static return. It certainly helped us, cars were sold.

I think the sign writer who painted the LONDON AIRPORT letters got his sizes
slightly wrong! A common feature of all type fonts is that the curved letters ie OCQ etc drop lower and sit higher then letters with flat elongated strokes ie FTLE etc.

If I had set out to write the name I would have painted the L starting just below the cill line beneath the windows above, and stop short of the feature line seen below with the curved letters just touching the line. The effect here is that the O next to the L of London looks shorter in height. Obviously long before the corporate signage industry became saturated with computer aided technology, nonetheless what a great picture.

Ritch, I am sure we have what you want. Strangely enough I was only this morning going through a box off small ply off cuts from our Proctor rebuilds.
Drop me a pm with address details assuming that your not already sorted I will mail it.

Leave exactly as is. If she is still at Duxford next summer please have her assembled and put outside with other Spitfires at the various shows for all to admire. It would be a unique opportunity to see and photo a Spitfire just as she was at wars end, original and untouched!

Granted not 2013 but can I leap forward to 2014 and suggest (fingers crossed) indeed everything crossed Percival Proctor Mk 3 LZ791 aka G-AKEX!!

Jur, it may not be 50’s but less then a decade later it still gives glimpses into how Heathrow looked before developers really hit top gear! The shop along the A4 was indeed VHF supplies in addition to radios they sold all manner of airline travel agency type models, post cards and 100 and 1 other airline products. I was lucky living in Chiswick from the late 60’s right between the two runway headings and many a Comet, DC3,4 and 6 passed overhead along with Vanguards, Viscounts and IL 18’s of Tarom, halcyon days indeed!

No harm done, may even attract non enthusiasts to buy a copy. Good for magazine circulation, good for sparking interest in historic types, good for the Mosquito cause. Lets hope the recent flight is the catalyst to get more warbird operators who read about and see her make this type top of their wanted list. A flyer has been completed, sceptics proved wrong, learning curves taken and understood, looking forward to seeing another duplication on the book shelves!