No show. From Twitter:
“David Cockburn @davidcockburn
AB910 doesn’t want to go to Duxford… coolant leak @RAFBBMF”
and
“RAF BBMF @RAFBBMF
Spitfire Mk.Vb AB910 taxies out for her sadly aborted trip to Duxford this morning. http://fb.me/2ur4h3C3V“
No show. From Twitter:
“David Cockburn @davidcockburn
AB910 doesn’t want to go to Duxford… coolant leak @RAFBBMF”
and
“RAF BBMF @RAFBBMF
Spitfire Mk.Vb AB910 taxies out for her sadly aborted trip to Duxford this morning. http://fb.me/2ur4h3C3V“
I see you have painted it at 250th of a second. 🙂
In the many years I have observed Spitfires flying I have never been able to see or count the propeller blades.
Both Pat Lardner-Burke and Bill Burge flew MH434 with 222 Squadron.
Mark
Indeed. I think you’d have to be a pretty sloppy clerk to misspell one of your pilot’s names repeatedly! That said, who would be responsible for writing the Record of Operations on a daily basis…?
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222 Sqn got their first IXs (from Vs) in late Mar ’44, into April. I did not note a wholesale change of aircraft after that date (until Nov or so). <<<
No, 222 got IXs from May 1943 I think with LFs from August ’43.
Edgar that’s a brilliant reply pulling together bits I’d found here there and everywhere (not least http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/spitfire-mk-ix-xi-and-xvi-variants-much-varied.html) and adding or clarifying some. I am very much obliged to you and I think I’m now there with the mods I need to effect. I still feel undecided about the wider cannon bulges – not least because photos show MH434 never had the second cannon ‘stub’. Anyway thank you.
Gary
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Thanks Mark – yes I’d already been through that thread, but it’s almost all about later incarnations. The Bill Burge mention and photo were invaluable though – it would be great to see any others if you have them. Was he the “Alfred William” Burge I thought?
Hmm … trouble is, it’s clear various things were designed/drawn, maybe even fitted to prototypes, but not necessarily on the raid a/c. Anyway thanks again!
Hmm … trouble is, it’s clear various things were designed/drawn, maybe even fitted to prototypes, but not necessarily on the raid a/c. Anyway thanks again!
Ah – thanks Eddie. Might I ask, how do you know? I’m looking at a photo of ED817 in the Jonathan Falconer book (Bruce Robertson collection) in which it does not have one although it is very hard to tell! :confused:
Ah – thanks Eddie. Might I ask, how do you know? I’m looking at a photo of ED817 in the Jonathan Falconer book (Bruce Robertson collection) in which it does not have one although it is very hard to tell! :confused:
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