Lethal Elegance. IMHO one of the most beautiful aircraft ever created.

Beautiful pics,Mark, it’s almost as though I’m looking at something from 6 decades ago!

Would anyone have a copyright free picture of a Percival Proctor (even a recent shot would be fine) that I might be able to use in a project I am putting together? Credit would, of course, be given when it’s used.

Thanks In Advance!

A blurry photograph?! :p 😀 😀 :dev2:

I remember reading several years ago about the owner of a verified piece of canvas from Richtofen’s DrI commissioning an aviation artist to paint a picture so the two could be displayed next to each other, so there are pieces still around.

I really can’t remember a time that airplanes didn’t fascinate me, as a child my grandfather used to build me toy wooden planes and a great-uncle used to give me model planes for every birthday and Christmas gift. I’ve recounted on another thread the whole story about what really clinched my love for warbirds, though, a P-51 and Bf-109 roaring over my neighborhood in 1972.

Being a Marine brat I was raised on a steady diet of USMC history and was encouraged to watch “Baa Baa Black Sheep” when it was originally on. Of course it was all fictional but still it fueled the fires of a lifelong love none the less. Meeting Col. Boyington by chance at the tiny Marine Museum in Quantico, Virginia not long there after made sure the addiction never subsided.

As I’ve said before my girlfriend calls my interest in avaition an “obssession” and my “second job”, I should only be so lucky.

Stormbird, yes, JFK’s older brother Joseph Kennedy died in the explosion of a Privateer that had been outfitted as a flying bomb. Google for Project Anvil or Project Aphrodite and you’ll find some info on the whole debacle. If I recall, one of the museums in the UK have recovered parts from the crashsite.