This has to be the strangest B17 I have ever seen !!!. At least you can clearly see the engines in this one.

Ok, its a spoof but very cleverly done all the same. Check out the website as well as it has some outstanding video footage.

Hope this link works.

http://www.airviolence.com/e107_plugins/kig_menu/_imagefiles/yw67927.jpg

Think you’ll find thatpiccie (or a monochrome one) was in Flypast years back, snapped froma moving car. I think it was shortly after that Spit was found in a river in Oz. Late eighties sometime ?.

The write up confirmes the use of ‘Harvard tail feathers’.

If I can get up in the loft later this week, I’ll have a look for the original article in my hardbound collection (got em all from 82′ !)

Beaut !

All we gotta do now is persuade Corgi to do the big Mossie in that colour scheme !!!

If you are still waiting for advice, perhaps it has stopped?

The advice certainly has !

I got medium damp getting there and damper still getting back.

Still like tro know the definitive answer tho’

The Shaks where still at Paphos a year ago. However, you should be very carefull trying to take piccies cos the planes are in a pen before the main terminal buildings and you cant park there. Additionaly, the background area of the pen looks over onto the military side of the airfield and you REALLY DONT WANT TO BE SEEN TO TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS IN THAT AREA !!!. There was also I believe a Dassault Flamant and I think also a Strikemaster as well but as I have said, you dont get much chance to stop and looksee. I know some-one posted a few piccies of the Shaks a while ago but he was VERY lucky to get away with it. Trust me, I’ve been back a year after spending three brilliant years in Cyprus and there are some things that just arent worth the risk !.The Astinomya (Police) that are in open attendance at the airports and walk round toting full automatics plus pistols.

RAF Akrotiri still has the Lightning. While I lived there, it was removed from its stand and re-painted in the Firebirds display team colours. They also named a road on the camp after it. Its in the main camp and you are very unlikely to get access onto an operational airfield to take piccies of it. There is one Whirlwind, cant remember the reg No, acting as gate guard outside the main guard room. The Phantom is not accessible but is looked after and trundled out on family days.

Dont know about the Nicosia stuff but there are a few interesting light planes / amphibians at Larnaca Airport. Again, dont go walking round with a camera taking piccies, depending on the prevailing wind direction, you get to taxi past them, thats when its safe to click away.

Depending what time of year you go, you may see the High Tension Pylons being sprayed with water from a Hughes 500, to clean off the dirt, or if there is a fire, the local Mil choppers with the water dropping stuff underslung or even the civvie version of the Hormone doing water drops. You will see, Hueys doing patrols in the Limassol area.

Oh, and dont forget the Vultures (bl**dy big budgfies wiv a 12 foot wingspan) at Episkopi. You’ll see them if you are on Curium beach.

Whatever, the beers cold and very cheap, the locals very friendly and nothing, but nothing gets done in the afternoons, so chill out and enjoy.

Looks pretty similar to the attached

OK, heres a few to start with…