Apparently not to be used for spares, but a spare. So she will fly.

Andy Hill was he ferry Pilot.

That’s good news.

You could also try Fantasy Printshop. They sell sheets of numbers and letters in RAF style and in various colours.

http://www.fantasyprintshop.co.uk/RAF-Numbers-and-Letters-WW11_B216OP.aspx

This has a Hawker look about it to me.

The video is fantastic!

Can’t find any images which would help I’m afraid but you’re assumptions are probably correct. Decal artists have a habit of guessing in the absence of factual evidence!

Ironic then that your very own Hunter book has a colour profile in it of XF383 (photo in this thread) showing a light blue scroll with red “145” number on it.

This ‘guessing’ thing must be catching.

There was a lot to be said for the old ‘At Home’ days too…

Yes, indeed there was. Some of my best and earliest memories are of the ‘At Home’ days at St. Athan where my Dad used to take me as a kid.

I remember parking on the side of the road miles from the airfield and walking to avoid the traffic queues. And the toilet tents!

And a battered and stripped old Whirlwind that was wheeled out specifically for us kids to climb on! Can you imagine that nowadays? The Health & Safety bods would have apoplexy…:D

There were special markings (white bands on the tailplanes and engine cowling) designed to avoid confusion between the Tempest II and the FW190 (which hints at their similar appearance), but that’s as close as it got.

Besides which, the Tempest’s basic fuselage was virtually identical to the Typhoon (albeit extended to include the fuel tank relocated from the wings) which had seen its first flight in 1940, so there was certainly no influence in the fuselage design at least.