Wasn’t one of the Me110’s squadron logos a Jaguar head in the Battle of Britain? Not sure, but maybe this is where the reference comes from.

Perhaps the Condors were Red Cross planes dropping rafts?

No Kiwi aces either – NZ had more aces per capita than any other nation (according to the NZ Fighter Pilots Museum)

When the museum opened I was there, and I was very pleased to meet several aces and pilots including the late Colin Grey (NZ’s top ace), and the late Des Scott. Both were really nice chaps. Colin told me about after being taken off ops he was trained as a special agent and dropped behind enemy lines – something not many people know! From memory it’s not even in his autobiography, though maybe it is, I can’t remember. He told me this because I was a parachute packer then, which brought us to the subject. He said as a fighter pilot he’d tried and succeeded having to use his parachute and then found himself being trained to use of to deliberately jump from a plane.

I personally rate Colin as my top ace – top scoring Kiwi, top bloke and who else was an ace and a spy???

Interesting replies, thanks chaps.

Just to go off topic a bit – I recall being told years ago that after the Armistace in 1918, the British Army moved on the Russians and fought them till 1919 to keep communism out of Europe. Is there any truth in this? I’ve only heard it the once.

Do you recall this thread? Dean has given a description of what Ayerst’s book says

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34094&highlight=hawarden

I am currently piecing together a long story on Bill Wells, one of the pupils who witnessed the fight, for my webpage

So where are the drawings now if the owner Viv Bellamy has died? Are they in a museum?

What about other DH brands like the Beaver, Otter, Drover, Dash 7, Dash 8 etc?