PLane Sailing’s Cat was sunk by a failure (fatigue in a torque tube?) that meant the nose door opened under the force of the water, and the rest is, sadly, history. So yes, as others have said, the last thing you want to do is land on water with it open.

Adrian

I’d expect the London Gazette to carry the notice of the award, with a brief description of why – https://www.thegazette.co.uk/

I’ve not used it myself for years, it used to be notoriously dreadful to search, so good luck!

Adrian

Thank you, and goodbye.

Adrian

As am I seeing as it was based at Debden!

Adrian

Happy to take the point about the A & B schemes – hard to confuse!

Good job the serials are clear in Mark12’s posts #30 and #31 – just look at the roundel (#30 – pan, #31 – ortho). Imagine how much fun could be had not realising that…

And I do like the shot of the cheeky chappy stood on the engine. Look Mum, here’s a Spitfire!

Adrian

I’m afraid I am going to muddy the pot, and throw this googly in. What effect would it have on the relative apprearance of the colours of the camouflage if one photograph was taken on panchromatic film and another on orthochromatic?

For the uninitiated, ortho- film, which was in common use in the WW2 era, is only sensitive to blue and green light, meaning that the film can be handled under a red light (beleive you me, this makes it much, much easier to handle!) and records blues as much lighter, reds as much darker, and yellow as almost black. Here’s a couple of examples – note the roundel tones on the Tornado, and bear in mins that the Hind is actually yellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchromatic_film#/media/File:15_Hawker_Tornado_HG641_(15833937541).jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Aeroclub/img356.jpg
(I think our own John Aeroclub might have supplied this – if so, thank you)

So might that confuse the two camouflage patterns if one photo was on pan and one ortho?

Adrian

Stunning images, particularly the B&W pair.

Adrian