Pure Spitfire p0rn!

It certainly answers the question of why he would invent such an infernal piece of equipment! 😉

I have not read about this subject for a while but I seem to remember that copilots would be eligable for upgrading after a certain number of missions. So I guess that the replacements were partially from within the squadron and also from the new crews that were fresh from training. Just my two cents.

By the way, I have always enjoyed John Comer’s ‘Combat Crew’ as a great read and a very honest insight into the lives of these crews.

Canadair F-86E Mk.6 in at Cambridge airport

According to DCW on the Flying Legends thread this was a Gulfstream 650 and an out-of-date database mix-up.

It certainly wasn’t ‘everything’ 😉

It may seem like that of course. Some designers with long-running production types switched at some point when the designations became too cumbersome. In some cases you ended up with things like the Fokker F.XXXVI. A KLM poster of that time labeled it the ‘Fokker F-36’ though, so at least someone in the marketing department realised that the public might not be trained in the classics as the designers obviously were.

I reckon that this was mostly a consequence of classical education and the customs of that day and age. As time went by more and more designations switched to arabic numerals.

Edit: somehow the Boeing DCCXLVII is just not the same…

According to the ‘Spotted’ thread the Blenheim went to Lelystad on 29th June and returned today. That’s pretty quick! I wonder if this wraps up the filming for this particular airframe or whether she will cross the North Sea again sometime soon. I was hoping to see her at EHLE perhaps but won’t be there until later this month…

Herman Dekker has this (from: http://hdekker.info/registermap/TWEEDE.htm):

PH-ASM Douglas DC-3-194G 2142

352 Geassembleerd door NV Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek.

21.07.1939 NV Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën,

‘s-Gravenhage/*Schiphol. “Mees”

16.05.1940 Gevorderd door Luftwaffe.

NA+LE, D-ATJG

21.07.1942 Bewijs van Inschrijving PH-ASM verlopen.

Op 3.9.1944 nog in dienst van de Luftwaffe, daarna is er niets meer van vernomen.