Somehow I’ve always pictured all the types from that novel as tailwheel aircraft, I guess that I should change that. Thanks for the link to the old thread Propstrike, I had forgotten about that one!
I doubt that this pin is trying to show a livery. It is just a Comet shaped aircraft (which was easily linked to Scott in those days) with a bit of text. Interesting item!
Good timing, I’ve just re-read that novel. It did keep me wondering though, which other types could have been the basis for the Airtruck and Carrier?
I recently found some information about, and photos showing the older hangars at Schiphol on a Dutch forum. I thought it would be of interest here as well.
Pre-WWII:
Military shed 1 to 6
Shed A
Temporary Shed B – Bessonneau-hangar
Shed B
Shed C
Shed D
Shed E
Shed F (Fokker)
Military hangar I
Military hangar II
Post-WWII:
Hangar 1 – Bromma, renamed Santos Dumont.
Hangar 1A – Count de Lambert
Hangar 2 – Haeren, renamed Jan Olieslagers.
Hangar 3 – Kastrup, renamed Jan Hilgers.
Hangar 3 – DDA
Hangar 4 – Fornebu (replacing shed F)
Hangar 4 – Ruys (Martinair)
Hangar 5 – Croydon (replacing shed E) renamed Orville & Wilbur Wright.
Hangar 5 – Transavia
Hangar 6 – Le Bourget (replacing shed B) renamed Louis Bleriot.
Hangar 7 – Hebrides, renamed Alcock & Brown
Hangar 8 – Van der Hoop
Hangar 9 – Kingsford Smith
Hangar 10*
Hangar 10 – KLM
Hangar 11 – KLM
Hangar 12 – KLM
Hangar 14 – KLM
*The original hangar 10 was on the North-East side of Hangar 1a, it was designed to cover only the nose and engines of an aircraft.
Double numbers in the list above show the original hangar first, then the later one that used that same number. These were not always in the same location.
The above thanks to ‘Classic’, from: http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/forums/showthread.php?40166-Cocooned
Schiphol from the air in August 1947, with and without overlay:
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Schiphol from the air in October 1948, with and without overlay:
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The second set is angled towards the South West and shows hangars 7 and 8 (new at that time) on the extreme left.
Images thanks to ‘ruudvanom’, from: http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/forums/showthread.php?40199-Luchtfoto%92s-van-Schiphol-in-opbouw
Found another one. Titusville, FL in March 2002.

Skyraider_Titusville_2002_1 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr

Skyraider_Titusville_2002_2 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr
Zoersel, September 1991 (unfortunately not a very good quality negative).
Skyraider_OO_Zoersel1992 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr
Duxford, July 2000
Skyraider_Duxford_2000_1 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr
Skyraider_Duxford_2000_2 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr
Sad news, but inevitable in a way. And she’s had a good run I’d say.
I think everyone here is in agreement that the aircraft in the photo shown is a Wellington. The Aircrewremembered site may have shown the image just to illustrate the crew involved, the aircraft in the image may not be related to the loss that is described on that page. It might help if someone could have a look at the records of the observer (Sgt. Brunton) to see if he was ever involved with any operations on Wellingtons.
Edit: I am also in doubt about the faired over turret. If you look above the head of the second chap from the right, on the edge of the image there is something that could be the corner of the turret cutout.
Does the faired over turret make this a T.10 or were there other marks with that modification? I don’t have my Putnam about Vickers nearby unfortunately.
We’ve come up with a different solution, here is the photo (front and back) that L9172 was trying to post.
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He has also included this about the photo:
Regarding the men in the photograph, the one on the extreme right is, I believe, Sgt Brunton, killed in Blenheim Z9595 of 55 Squadron (although he was detached from 8 Squadron at the time) on 12/12/41 but none of the others has been identified apart from a note that the three next to Brunton are WOp/AGs and the other two are pilots. I do not even know where or when the photograph was taken.
This reminds me a bit of the safety recommendation that came out of PL983’s crash in France in 2001. The AAIB found that an insulator in the magnetos was not functioning as it should and these items could be over 50 years old. As mentioned, we are running these engines far beyond their originally intended service life and this can lead to strange and previously unrecognised problems.
L9172, I have just sent you an e-mail. The problem seems to be that you are trying to upload a PDF file which, as you mentioned, is not an image file. Photobucket will most likely reject this as well.
Great news! Some more info and pictures in this article: http://dixiewing.org/2017/02/20/p-63a-flies/
Quite a bit of exhaust staining on that first photo by the way. Would that be normal for this engine type?
Just a thought but perhaps this was the configuration of the patch ‘as new’, with accomodation to open up the leather further if maintenance or repairs should require this.
Hello L9172, see if you can save the photo to a folder on your computer (the desktop works as well). Then when you create a new post here, click on the picture image:
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In the dialog that opens, select the ‘from computer’ tab, click on ‘browse’ and find the image you saved. Then when you’re back to this dialog, click on ‘upload image’. After that you will see a bit of code in your message (a number with ATTACH codes around it) that will be replaced with the image in question when you post the message.
Hope this helps.