In the US… Classic Rotors Rare and Vintage Rotorcraft Museum HAD (I don’t know whether they are still in operation) 5 flight worthy classics…
Vertol H21B (tandem rotor)
Kamov Ka26 (co-axial rotor)
Hiller UH12
Piasecki HUP-1
Sikorsky H19.

I recall seeing photos of the H-21 on the airshow circuit some years ago.

So they will sell a total of 2?

and then launch law suits in 5 years when someone has produced 150

The pencil sketch IS priceless, but is it just me or does it not resemble something more like a Whitley/Stirling crossbreed? (perhaps there was an original photo of a Whitley flying in that position?)

It’s usually somewhere between two points of view…the bad guys have their view, as do the good.

and to add some complexity to all ‘great moments’ in history – there are in fact THREE sides to every story… loosely said… (Your’s, Mine and Everyone Else’s)

Markings on that Ju 87 are Italian, Co-Belligerent post September 1943. Aircraft in the background is a Co-Belligerent Fiat BR.20.

These Ju 87s were in service with the Regia Aeronautica at the time of the Italian Armistice, and I don’t believe it’s an ex-Luftwaffe captured machine. Look at the number ahead of the roundel and it seems to indicate the original ‘in-service’ identity number ex-Regia Aeronautica. Definitely not a German style code, neither British or USAF.

ahhh.. well-spotted Richard (and thus, Panchromatic film)

Possibly a lead… and hopefully not muddling anything…

But, the name Coons is very familiar to myself and my father… My father worked post-war with/for F/L Herbert L Coons DFC+Bar…. (this particular Coons family were established here in Eastern Ontario) There were three Coons brothers from here in the air during the war.

Herb was the most recognized from his DFC with 95 Sqn (Sunderlands) and then Bar later in Burma (Dakotas). (dec. May 2005)

Herb’s bother F/O Willis C [Wylie] Coons was killed in crash of Warwick BV336 Nov 13/43. This leads to the 3rd local Coons boy…

Gilbert Coons (Possibly L.G.?, but my father has no recollection of knowing him by any other names than Gilbert or ‘Gib’) who at some point in late ’43 was, according to Willis’ obit “doing pilot duty out of Algiers” I don’t know whether this ‘gibes’ with 401’s operations at the time.

Cheers,
James

Didn’t know the israel’s operated Migs……

completely ‘technically’ speaking – it’s the IDF-AF (Israeli Defense Forces – Air Force)… 😉

IAF can also be the Indonesian AF (TNI-AU … Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Udara)