Well, certainly makes it stick out! Shame they’re not going to return it to taxiing condition.

Is the ARC responsible for the IWM Bolingbroke restoration as well? (Heard it’s on hold). Just wondered if you knew what the plans for this were now, heard it isn’t going into airspace, was wondering if it would be restored a few years later in camouflage, or still going into trainer yellow? Although it is good to see aircraft in unusual colours, recently two rare aircraft have already gone in target tug colours, the RAF Museums Tempest and the IWM’s Mossie

Out of interest whilst people vote for the generic Spitfire -which do they consider the most beautiful out of the marks ? I am a fan of the MK.VIII.

Either the Mk I, II, V or IX for me – if I could have any dream Spit it would be a Mk II in brown/green camo with a white spinner, mmmmmm 😀

East Kirby has a very nice one, Yorkshire Air Museum’s isn’t bad as well. Last time I was there, RAF Syerston had theirs as well

Ah that sounds great Andy, what colours will they be? Will have to get myself down to Bristol to see that

For vehicles, I recognised;

Willys Jeep
GMC CCKW ‘Deuce and a Half’ 2 1/2 ton truck (with later open cab)
Dodge 4×4 Command car
Dodge 4×4 ambulance
David Brown bomb tractor

Even quite a few of the vehicles were in fact 2d ‘cut outs’ like some of the B17’s, the After the Battle magazine article states the name of the owner of the Willys Jeep which carried the Memphis Belle crew, may be able to try and track him down

Although personally i’ll miss the Mk IV nose as I think the Blenheim IV looks great, will be really good to have a Mk I, and will mean the UK will soon have a good mix of Blenheim/Bolingbrokes – an airworthy Mk I, a Mk IV in RAF colours at Hendon, a Mk IV in target tug (I think) colours at Duxford in airspace, and also the East Fortune one, although don’t know what they’re planning to paint theirs.

Try http://www.imdb.com and search for Memphis Belle, last time I went on there there was at least one person who had starred as an extra on the film who might be useful