I suspect that by TSR.II Graham means the Swordfish prototype, certainly a multi-role aircraft if ever there was one! You could probably go further back and say the Bristol F.2b was the first real MRCA, although of course it wasn’t officially designed to a multi-role spec. Then there’s the various versions of FE2, designed as a fighter(!), and then used for just about every other front line role.

Anyway, back to Mosquitoes…

Thanks for all these Rob, it looks like a dream trip! Some really interesting stuff, it’s hard to know where to begin.

That four engine wing section is KC97, but I think PoF intend to use it in the restoration of the B50 Superfortress “Lucky Lady II” which you got a shot of at Chino. As I understand it, B50 and KC-97 wings are basically identical.

Really interesting to see the Siemens-Shuckart D.IV at PoF East, I never realised they had one. Anyone know its history?

It’s just this kind of American museum tour that’s on my bucket list, I’m not envious in the slightest, this shade of green is purely coincidental…:D

“Woolfox” could perhaps refer to RAF Woolfox Lodge?

Dunsfold Wings and Wheels sounds right up your street, a varied flying display with intervals for cars and bikes of all ages, shapes and sizes to blast down the runway. It’s organised by the people at Brooklands, so you get to see some of the collection cars having a good run alongside a whole host of privately owned vintage and custom vehicles.

Considering the scale of the venue, it actually feels surprisingly small and you get a good view of just about everything that goes on. You might imagine that the vehicle run is going to be a parade of distant specks but that’s not the case. The venue suits a wide variety of displaying aircraft too, so acts like the Tiger Club Turbulent team aren’t swamped but the place is still big enough to operate Hunters, Hawks etc out of.

This year’s show is August 24th/25th.

http://www.wingsandwheels.net/

There was mention of the moves on the forum a short time ago, apparently they’re going to a collection in Ireland.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?p=1979905#post1979905

You mean Cyprus? 😉 They’re both still there, although they’re looking rather sorry for themselves. They had to be moved a couple of years back and enormous efforts were made to crane them to a new location, so it seems somebody cares about them.

Both the French registered Furies are powered by Wright R-3350’s, as are most of the “Americanized” Furies. The only exceptions as far as I’m aware are Dreadnought, flying with a whopping 28-cylinder P&W R-4360, and Argonaut with a P&W R-2800. Both were converted by Sanders Aeronautics, and the R-2800 fit on Argonaut is a fairly recent modification which could be applied to other examples in due course. The Sanders website is well worth checking out, click the “Aircraft” tab in the red bar…

http://www.sandersaircraft.com/

Great pics Neilly, it was certainly a great display.

The yellow square was a gas detection patch which changed colour in the event of a gas attack. They were applied to numerous RAF fighters in 1939/40, but seem to have been largely discarded thereafter.

Yellow patches were also applied to aircraft in other commands, yellow discs could still be found on the noses of some Bomber Command Lancs as late as 1944.