Corsair and P-40 are at Ardmore, NZ now. La-9 is on the way. The Spitfire MH434 remains at Duxford as does the Mustang operated by OFMC.

I started early! This is me circa 1974…..

Does the webmaster block out the word aeroplane or only when it has a capital letter at the front – Aeroplane?

Originally posted by Mike J
…and not fot the last time either. The very same Buchon received similar damage in an incident at Duxford during filming of ‘Pearl Harbor’ a couple of years ago!

Nope – it was at Lydd.

Originally posted by VoyTech

JDK, you are wrong (If I understood correctly the long word with ‘counter…’ at the beginning ;)). There was a Fighter Command signal sent in late June/early July (if my memory serves me) defining the white bands to be applied on noses and tails; then another one a few days later, making it clear to everyone that the white stripes on tail should be across not along the tailplane;

V.

Thats an impressivley long memory you have there VoyTech. I sense you and JDK are actually in agreement on the issue that the so-called Dieppe invasion stripes were not actually applied for the August 19th operation and that most, if not all, aircraft that were adorned with them earlier that Summer had them removed prior to Operation Jubilee.

I heard the 190 has finally flown. Any report/links anyone?

Re: Tropical filters ommited – why?

Originally posted by Chris Broad
Hello chaps,
I was just wondering why modern restorations of warbirds don’t seem to ever have tropical filters fitted.
TIA

Very simple – its because they are very ugly and do nothing for performance. Coupled with the fact that they would have to be specially fabricated means that they are just never done.
These factors have overuled the historic accuracy factor.