Hi Septic,

Did a lot of research on Hurricane exports for my book, published by Periscopio/Squadron Signal. There’s only one way to do this type of research, go to the main source. Personal contacts is the answer; not easy but definitely rewarding. Unfortunately my main text in this book had to be edited due to space limitations, but if you’re interested in all serials, etc, send me a PM and will try to find time to go through the mass of material that I managed to compile on export Hurricanes.

Here are some more details from an old feature of mine about Export Hurricanes:

During July 1951 a flight of five Hurricanes drawn from Esquadrilha ‘VX’ and ‘MP’ paid a goodwill visit to the UK where they donned temporary RAF markings to participate in the filming of ‘Hawks in the Sun’, also released under the name of ‘Angels One Five’.

544 VX-E flown by Lt Moura Pinto
554 VX-O flown by Sub Lt Brochado de Miranda
601 MP-S flown by Sub Lt Pereira Lemos
624 MP-B flown by Sub Lt Lobo Fernandes
600 MP-? flown Sub Lt Calado Orvalho

These were accompanied by Anson serialled 215 flown by Cdr Duarte Silva and Sub Lt Cruz Novo

Departed 15 July 1951 to Tangmere where they arrived three days later, having staged through Logrono and Bordeaux. Filming at Kenley took place between 20 and 27 July and the Hurricanes returned to their base on 17 August.

Howzat??

Here’s a low res version from my Archives. The original pic is practically full size and the panel lines/hinge lines give a perfect indication for positioning.

PM me with an e.mail address where I can send it. Original is nearly 6Mb.

Richard

Thanks

Thanks James, John. Yes I have pics of the bits and pieces of A27-247. Will post the pages of the Vengeance soon for all to see.

RJC

Bit of a can of worms, this, Willip26 & pagen01.

Some ten of the Sea Gladiators were used at one time or another, probably more.

Plenty of books have been written about this. Best one by Brian Cull and Frederick Galea:

https://secure.vaultserver.com/s/maltabooks/product_info.php?products_id=485&osCsid=52436e8a612b51bb75c463341fefe3f9

R Caruana

This site shows a recent sale of one:

http://www.oldnautibits.com/stock_php/aviation_clothing_b.php

Maybe booking with them in case one comes in their possession would be a good idea?

RAAF Colour Chart

Found this somewhere on the web (sorry, been some time on my HD, can’t remember where it came from).

Spartan colour chart, a bit faded but a good start where RAAF colours are concerned.

Richard J. Caruana