i really can’t get over how bitchy the old aircraft ‘enthusiast’ world is.
no matter whan anyone does you’ll always get somoene picking holes in it and whingeing about it!
whether its the sea vixen is a funny colour, that FW-190 has got funny markings, that Lanc never had those markings….god its so tedious!

i’ve worked on aircraft for nearly 25 years now and everytime i’ve met somone involved in the restoration side of things i’m always impressed by their passion for the job they are doing, often for not the best wages in the world. it must be heartbreaking for them to spend years restoring an aircraft, just for them to read on a forum like this a bunch of ‘enthusiasts’ slagging of the choice of marking or colour!

i’d be interested to know if anyone who’s contibuted to this thread know the detailed terms and conditions from when Dan air handed over the Comet to duxford….surely if duxford are paying for the repaint, they get a say in what colour its going to be?
and do you really think it would jepordize future donations to the museum if in many years time, the aircraft of a now defunct airline is panted in another scheme by the people who’ve looked after it, maintained it and housed it?

it all seems so bloody petty!

Looks like a C-130K (C.1 or C.3) to me.

its definately not a ‘K’ . the K has square tie down fittings and the anti slip walkway is painted on.
the role equipment in the photo is not fitted to K’s and is only fitted to the J in RAF service.

if its not an RAF aircraft it could be a H or J model.

1988: Red Arrows, BBMF, Vulcan, Phantom, Tornado F3, Buccaneer, Harrier, Nimrod, Shackleton, German Navy Tornado, BAe Hawk 200, ATP, Jetstream 31, BAe 146, BAe 125, Skyhawks, Iveco Truck Top Landing, Yugo Cars Stearman and wingwalker, Vladivar Yak-50, Marlboro Aerobatic Team (Pitts x2), Toyota Pitts Special (Brian Lecomber), Mosquito, PC-9 (BAe), P47 Thunderbolt (TFC), P40 Kittyhawk.

1989: Red Arrows, BBMF, Vulcan, Tornado F3, Harrier, Jaguar, Buccaneer, Nimrod, Hawk T1A, Jet Provost, BAe ATP, BAe 748 Turbine Tanker water-drop, Jetstream 31, BAe 146, BAe 125, Skyhawks, Yugo Cars Stearman and wingwalker, Vladivar Yak-50, Diamond 9 Tiger Moths, Harvard Formation Team, Team Toyota, B17 Sally B.

just to add one to 1988. i was there with a couple of RAF GR1 Tornados from TWCU/45sqn. it absoloutely chucked it down, and i think we may have been the only fast jet to be based there for the weekend as i remember after our jet took off all you could hear were car alarms!

and on a side not, it was that weekend i had my first ever go on a mobile phone. one of our pilots had one and he let us have a go.

Thanks Laurent

I have these, the switch is original, the plate of the switch and the face of the U/C indicator are not. So at least a nice filler.
Corke sold simplified Hurricane replica panels like his Spitfire´s.
So he needed them to fill the holes.

By the way. The mysterious hole would suit a Kigass primer pump!
The distance from screwhole to screwhole would fit my drawing (3cm)
So maybe they really planned to mount the primer to the panel.

Regards,
Herbert

the chap in the ebay advert above is selling a kigass primer pump thingy, and says its suitable for hurricanes and spitfires.

will it be at legends?

(sorry, someone had to do it!)

just in case you didn’t see the link posted on your previous thread…plenty of pics on this website…
http://www.mart-aviation.co.uk/P%20Masks.htm

does the orange autogyro have a fuselage from an avro 504?

the book of that series (fighter pilot) is in my local second hand book shop in good condition and cheap!