Another Hawker product, and a pup that seems to have narrowly missed a belly landing.

More air show traffic from 2008 (Legends).

Still on topic, but back to the Typhoon. It must have taken some skill to do it like this!

Andy Thomas (the co-author of “Combat Codes”, among others) says that Sammy Sampson mentioned in his autobiography flying a Spitfire VII with 131 Sqn during his staff posting to 11 Group HQ: “Although not a Wing Comander, I did have access to my own Spitfire, another Mk VII, and rather cheekily I had ‘SS’ painted on the side to denote its owner.”
This might also explain the Spitfire’s presence at Northolt, a regular landing point for staff oficers in London.

The only squadron I can think of with these undersized invasion stripes saw 131 with there NX marked HF.VII spitfires. These later got standard camoflague, but I think still kept the small invasion stripes. Also the cockpit could be pressurized with a larger peice of glazing behind the sliding canopy.

I, too, think this is a Mk VII. Culmhead Wing flew these Spitfires, with undersize bands. W/Cdr Pete Brothers is said to have had a personal coded Mk VII, MD188 PB during summer/early autumn 1944 (I don’t recall seeing a photo). Can we check who succeeded him at this post or who was Station Commander at Culmhead at the time, for a match to “S.S.” initials?