Afraid to say its true, Just talked to my brother who was going to run a stand there, it didn’t stop raining all night and the ground is a mud bath, blame the weather people.

Yea but this is Hollywood. Hmmmm.

Mark

So make sure that the two Sorpe attacks are in the film this time, problem with the Yank involvement solved with no invention of story whatsoever.

Anybody know if the nose of XV420 is still intact? (FGR2 that got the Chop at Neatishead back in mid 2005, Went to a scrap dealer in Coventry I do believe, there was some stuff still in the cockpit though 23 Sqn did remove some bits from the cockpit before she got the axe for the aircraft at Waddington)

Hello Chaps,
Regarding the spitfire of S/L Brian Lane, on Osprey Book “Spitfire Mark I/II Aces 1939 – 1941” appears P9386 profile and the letter K is medium sea gray but on W/C Douglas Bader, P7966 profile has not any nose art like BIGVERN1966 drawings, also on Revell Spitfire 1/48 has not nose art in its decals. This aircraft was a presentation spitfire, wearing the legend “Manxman” below the cockpit on its starboard side.

Best Regards.

Met a rigger from 19 Sqn who worked on the aircraft while at Folwmere, yesterday at Duxford, K code on P9386 was medium sea gray as far as he remembers (and he saw the aircraft in Technicolor, so I believe him). As for P7966, look at page 147 of ‘Spitfire! Courage and Sacrifice’ by Dilip Sarkar, there is a photo of the nose art on P7966 (though there is a typo on the text under the photo which list the aircraft as P9766 (not a spitfire serial)). Revell, Aeromaster and Ospray all got it wrong I’m afraid.

Three Spitfires

For anybody going to DX for the BBMF 50th Airshow tomorrow, check out the Victory Books Stand, My first commisioned work (450 x 320 mm prints) will be on sale there as part of the Book signing going on (I’ve no idea how much they are going for). Profiles attached below (and yes Allen125, they are weathered).

Having been ‘Down Saaf’ twice in the last 20 years and met lots of the locals, the place is British. End of story. The Argies should be glad of that as thanks to us they haven’t been led by a bunch of incompetent military thugs for the last 20 years.

Auxiliary Air Intakes for the Engines, is what those doors are.

Having real problems kickstarting the brain this morning so I must ask, is the shahada the markings on the tail?.

Regards,

John.

yep green box with the script and Arab sword

The one that I’m doing was in the full markings as painted at BAC before it went to Coltishall to do the initial training of the Saudi pilots (the Norwich F53 does have a representation shahada on the tail, however the script is not that which was on the aircraft when it was in RSAF service).