Where do you get this wonderful stuff? You just keep on coming with amazing pictures! I am very curious about the Do-28. Color scheme looks to be black top and silver bottom. Also, regarding the markings, is the red bar on the fin part of the fin flash? If so, I don’t see any green, which is part of the standard black-red-green flash. It’s not red-black-red; there’s no second red stripe. Also, I wonder if the fuselage marking is repeated on alternate wings, bottom of right wing and top of left? If not, I presume the “01” portion of the registration number would be on the bottom right wing. Would the markings also repeat on the top wings? Thanks for this one- you’ve made my day!

gkozak… here’s a lightened up version of the Dornier for your enjoyment. You can ‘clearly’ make out the black/red/green fin flash and a few more details. The finish reminds me of the standard green/grey (especially visible towrd the wing-tip) pattern applied in Germany – 2 tone camo on top and aluminum undersides.

Thanks Flex…

The reason for my inquiry is simple – I’ve recently come across a Blog containing an article and 2 B/W photos of a 4-ship aerobatic helo team in Chile dated from 1986 (Team ‘Aguila’). I’d love to be able to tie in some kind of base-line markings reference on the Chilean Army Lama as they didn’t appear to carry any special markings.

The only other markings I’ve noted have been full-colour (red/blue shield, and white stars and ‘Ejercito’ markings on ‘standard’ green) included on a model kit.

no self-respecting (properly trained) Lightning ‘driver’ would enter a dogfight … period! (Lightning was designed and built as an interceptor – never intended for ‘dog-fighting’)

I’d still give the advantage to the Lightning – simply favouring the missile technology – Lightning to me would have nailed said FISHBED before they got to ‘dance’.

No survivors after UN plane carrying 11 people crashes in Haiti

9 October 2009 – All 11 people aboard a United Nations plane that crashed today in a mountainous area of south-eastern Haiti have been killed, the UN peacekeeping mission to the Caribbean country has confirmed.
The mission, known as MINUSTAH, issued a communiqué that said the plane was on a regular reconnaissance flight in south-eastern Haiti when it crashed around noon into the side of a mountain in the Fonds-Verrettes area, about 45 kilometres from the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The bodies of the 11 passengers and crew have been recovered from the crash site and transported back to Port-au-Prince, where the headquarters of MINUSTAH is located. The names of the people killed have not yet been released but the UN confirmed that the victims include Uruguayan and Jordanian military officers serving with the mission.

MINUSTAH reported that an investigation is already under way into the cause of the crash of the Uruguayan CASA-212 military aircraft, which had departed from Port-au-Prince on a surveillance flight over an area near the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement through his spokesperson tonight in which he extended his condolences to the families, colleagues and friends of the peacekeepers who died, while MINUSTAH did the same in its own communiqué.

MINUSTAH has been in place in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, since mid-2004 after the then president Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile amid violent unrest. Currently there are more than 9,000 military and police personnel deployed and nearly 2,000 civilian staff.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32495&Cr=haiti&Cr1=

FAU-531…
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Dominican-Republic-Haiti-Port-au-Prince2C-Haiti/photo//091010/481/94a35fe885fc4bca95b74a801ba7915f//s:/ap/20091010/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_plane_crash#photoViewer=/091010/481/2f9bb4d46f93467287fe6181e0bc8bbb

Conflicting claims on Yemen MiG ‘crash’
but the government said it crashed because of technical problems….

A ManPAD up the ‘tailpipe’ can cause a world of ‘technical problems’ …:diablo:

Found these tidbits on the Meteors in Larry Milberry’s Sixty Year – The RCAF and CF Air Command 1924-1984

“The flight trials of the NRC Flying Wing began in spring 1946 and progressed well despite some setbacks. But Meteor EE311 was lost June 29 when ditched in a northern Ontario lake while being flown to Malton by Bill McKenzie. It had been thought that ditching a Meteor would be fatal, but McKenzie succeeded. He was missing for 27 days in the bush before he found his way out. …”

and another Meteor…

“Meteor testing continued on EE361 after EE311 was lost, but on December 10 (1946) its career ended. Jack Ritch was flying it that day and was descending through cloud to land when the controls became very stiff. As he broke into the clear, Ritch realized that he was diving too fast. He hauled back on the stick with all his strength and managed to regain control and land safely. But a look at EE361 showed serious structural damage. …”

Quoting a caption to a wingless Meteor… “Once damaged, EE361 could not be flown although it did serve as a useful ground test bed.”

So there’s our ‘wingless’ Meteor – EE361.

AND… From Milberry’s Canada’s Air Force at War and Peace – Vol. 3… 3 great static photos (2 of EE311 and 1 of RA421) – Page 58

“RA421, the RCAF’s third and last Meteor, served briefly in 1948…” This particular aircraft is pictured in said volume and is shown wearing an overall aluminum finish.

James

The first Meteor in Canada was EE311 (an F.3) which was assigned to the Test & Development Establishment at Rockcliffe in 1945. EE311 was also flown on several exhibition flights over Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Hamilton, London and Windsor before being crated and shipped to the Winter Experimental Establishment in Edmonton (November/December 1945)

The earliest RCAF pilots flying EE311 were S/L Shan Baudoux, F/L Bill McKenzie and F/L Jack Ritch – Ritch performed the majority of the exhibition flights.

The 2 photos I’ve seen published of EE311 show it to be finished in standard RAF camouflage and markings of the time.