Judging by the runway heading, length of the shadows, local solar time being about 23:00 and the fact that there appear to be leaves on the deciduous trees (most likely silver birch), I’d say it looks well north… I’d go for Estonia, Finland or Russia.
CORRECTION: It’s far north, in/close to the Arctic. The sun is shining from roughly North by West.
My uncle flew one of the Hunter ferry missions to India. I have his log books for the flights somewhere, but I believe they went via Orange (France), Luqa, Alexandria, Aden, and ended up in Dehli. I will try to find the logs.
Your IMG_0004 and IMG_0008 look like a weapon cover from a ‘C’ type wing. You will find numbers on them that will not give the actual aircraft idendity, but will reveal the Spitfire Mark. The first 3 digits of the number will be in the 300 range and refer to the Mark. The next 2 digits will most likely be 08 for the wing, then there will be a 3 or 4 digit number that are the actual detail number for the part.
I don’t know what the other part is, but it is also some kind of cover panel.
AIUI a lot of police pilots flew them the wrong side of the stall after which the still intact airframes were grounded. Can anyone clarify this?
Flying fixed wing low and slow is a dangerous idea all together. You do it when you land, but airfields are designed not to have dangerous turbulence where you are close to the ground.
Anything is better than the stupid black scheme. That makes maintenance/inspection harder and solar heating on the ground increases airframe temperature cycling uneccesarily.
I also like the old red and white training scheme with the black anti-dazzle panel.
I don’t know how likely this is, but what about the Hispano SA-200 Saeta? It has the ‘old’ look about it, nose intake, straight tapered wings, and tip tanks. The wings are not so short, though.
As I have just came across the following I thought I’d ask the question… How much would a potential airworthy cam-shaft be from a Rolls-Royce Griffon as I have one stored. I think it’s possibly a spare for a Spitfire PR.19 as it’s ticket is BBMF!
With hundreds of Long Ezes and Vari Ezes flying thousands of hours I think we can safely say it’s a good aeroplane. Perhaps their only weakness is that any grit on the runway can be picked up by the wheels and damage the propellor.
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