Thanks again, great photo’s! Love the sunset shot on the grass, great Spit pic too. 🙂

Quite an adventure in a Storch, although I’m guessing not as thirsty as it would be with an Argus! What is the replacement engine?

An interesting thread, please post more!

It’s perhaps worth pointing out that according to figures from the last few years, Cosford IS the main RAF Museum already – annual visitor numbers at Cosford are higher than for Hendon, a strange situation given the latter’s London location. Perhaps this will change with the extra publicity of the Centenary and the new galleries etc, but it does perhaps explain why the RAFM have gone down what some call the “funfair” route to attract more London visitors.

Haven’t seen it for myself yet, hope to in the next few days.

An interesting proposal and one that would bring Hatfield pretty much back full circle, given the airfield’s humble beginnings as a civilian club aerodrome. It’s not often we see new UK airfields opening up, especially on such a historic site.

WL747,

Please click the following link for several images of ‘TIGE’ which show her displayed in Bristow colours. Appears she was roaded to IHM from Norwich, a bit of a drive!

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-TIGE

Apologies for the thread hijack, that tailboom for ‘208 looks to be in great condition.

Signed!

As others above have said, it’s not the medal itself that is important but the recognition that it brings. This in turn can hopefully be used to lever compensation and pensions etc from the UK government, which are long overdue. The situation as it stands is absolute madness, veterans in Aus and NZ have already been recognised and it’s just slack and neglectful of the UK gov not to have done the same.

The super-matt finish on the Defiant is probably what makes it look a little bit two-dimensional, but it is accurate. The RAF tried to use this new type of extra matt Night Finish from 1940-1942 but it was found to wear down quickly into a semi-matt in many places (hence the very scrappy looking finishes seen in some archive pics). It also affected performance, and was withdrawn in favour of a more conventional paint.

Lovely to see the Defiant out in the sun, I’m guessing she would have got quite hot to the touch in some places.

My only question about the paintjob would be the later style fin-flash with the early roundels. Knowing the reputation of MAPS, I’m guessing this is unusual but accurate?

In what seems like a rather amazing coincidence, I posted another example (or is it the same one scrubbed up??) on the forum yesterday. No positive ID as yet. See here:

https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?145295-Insignia-I-D-Required