How’s this?

Info gleaned from Larry Milberry’s ‘Air Transport In Canada – Volume 1’

1957, Spartan acquires a Kenyan air charter co. – renames it Spartan Air Services (Eastern)…
November ’57: Mosquito Mk.35 CF-HMQ ferried to Nairobi by John Nock joining fellow Spartan crew in Nairobi: Ralph Burton, Vince Kluke and Dennis Boyer (mechanic)
Early ’58: Burton flies HMQ to UK for maintenance
May ’58, Nock returns HMQ to Ottawa

I’ve only seen the one pic of HMQ in the book – and its a small BW taken in late ’58 in Canada. Spartan’s ‘house’ colours at the time were overall aluminum paint, with bright red (almost day-glo) spinners, fin/rudder/elevator/wing tips. The registration was carried in black on a white band (bordered in red) across the fin/rudder, along with a Canadian Red Ensign below that on the fin. Registration CF-HMQ carried top stbd wing and bottom of port in black outboard of the engines. Spartan Air Services Ltd. titling on fuselage in black. Spartan logo (stylized wing superimposed on triangle) carried port and stbd of nose ahead of windscreen – in line with observation windows.

Darn.. I think I’ll have to draw this one…

55.8 … ugh… I knew things weren’t looking too good.

Well, speaking from this side of the pond… there a re quite a few examples in the US that I can think of immediately…

Yak-9U (and others)
and of course the Fighter Factory’s I-15, I-16, I-153 etc. If I remember correctly, these particular a/c were restored and originally operated by the Alpine Fighter Collection at Wanaka NZ.

An interesting series – 2 seasons’ worth of episodes (although I’ve not seen a number of the second season episodes).

Link

I had heard several months ago that the series had been canceled due to lagging ratings. The program is also available on DVD, and is now an online game.

I’ve been amazed by the archival footage – some great Sabre and MiG-21 material including aerobatic teams.

JJ

someone HAS to ask…

will it be at Legends???

apologies to all for any/all pain and misunderstanding and any copyright infringements as I ‘get my coat’ 😉

(and whew!! for once I wasn’t the one to ask about female singularity)

JJ

a great loss to the literary world indeed – whether you’ve enjoyed/agreed/disagreed with him, he was a man of conviction. His works have captivated me since secondary school, ‘The Naked and The Dead’ as a class assignment – some 20 years now.

Many years ago I happened upon a great biography of him, simply entitled
‘Mailer – His Life and Times’, by Peter Manso,
Simon and Schuster 1985 ISBN 0-671-44264-3
an amazing insight into a definitely interesting ‘character’.

4 Canberras even!

From the US classic jet registry…

Canberra TT18 N2138J EEPR/EA36640 Boise, ID, Steve Picatti
Canberra TT18 N76764 EEP13535, Jet Aviation Historical Society, Phoenix, AZ
Canberra TT18 N76765 HP/HI/181B, Jet Aviation Historical Society, Phoenix, AZ Airworthiness – Experimental, Operations – Research and Development
Canberra TT18 N77844 HP/HI/161B, National Aviation Museum and Foundation of Oklahoma, TULSA, OK Airworthiness – Experimental, Operations – Exhibition