I still recall a few years back when everyone tried to tell the film company where the two Curtiss Helldiver repllicas “needed” to go to after filming King Kong. How did that work out for you all?

Just out of idle curiosity, where did they go ?

..he just looks so young…..humbling….

I have a picture up here in the study of Flt Lt. Richard “Dickie” Lee and other 85 Squadron pilots posing with beers in front of a Hurricane, 6 pilots in the picture, combined age probably no more than 130 years at the time, and I’m moaning at work because my boss is wanting me to do more costings and financial controls. As you say, very humbling.

If I was going to put money on this, I would say that the Robert Taylor (centre print) would be correct. Robert Taylor is the king of aviation art (I worship the ground he walks on…..did I say that out loud?…) I doubt he would get that wrong. However, Corgi on the other hand……………

I,ll have a look in my library and if I find something I’ll post it up.

cheers Baz

Everyone can make mistakes, Robert Taylor painted Robert Stanford-Tucks Spitfire over Dunkirk without a “night and white” undersides paint job, IIRC most/all RAF fighters had that scheme at the time? I’m a big moaner when the die-cast makers make mistakes though – that said, as the owner of the 1/32 Hurricane I’ll stick my fingers in my ears and whistle very loudly and not read any more replies in case it is wrong !;)

Maybe sometime in it’s service life (and not on its last flight) it had the white spinner:o I have seen other 249 Squadronj aircraft with the white spinner (small tail markings though)

from http://www.jackmalloch.com

1979 to 1982
Jack is very involved in the SAS bridge-blowing ‘Operation Cheese’ in north-eastern Zambia – September 1979
Jack makes the first flight in the renovated Spitfire Mk 22 – March 1980
Jack’s CL-44 is destroyed by fire at Salisbury airport – February 1982.
Jack is killed while flying the Spitfire Mk 22 on the last day of filming the documentary ‘Pursuit of a Dream’ – March 1982.

DVD link there as well. First I had heard of him, sounds an interesting man to say the least !! The WWW site says that a biography will be out soon plus it has some snaps of the MK22.

That seems a sad state of affairs, no spare Hercules to do the trucking and a useful NAVEX?

Not unless the Royal Family want one as they have run out of Chinooks to do their jollies in…..

Wow….

Lucky *******’s to see these on a regular basis….

The RAFM tail section is serving a valuable purpose as it is – being displayed across the airfield from where it was built, at Baginton (now Coventry Airport), as part of the AWA story, within the Midland Air Museum.

That said I wouldn’t mind if it was replaced with an entirely complete Whitley at some point !;)

It’s worth a visit to the Midland Air Museum anyway, fantastic bunch of people there who can never do enough to help you – but the Whitley tail section looks so small when compared to the Lancaster that we all see and are familiar with, and even IMO the Welington, I found it a very sobering exhibit.