Good point there, Spitfireman about the grey camo on the port wing. If it was a darker shade, i.e. Dark Grey, I would definitely this to be the port upper, but it appears to be Light Aircraft Grey which makes me stick to my starboard story. What is puzzling though is two things:

1) that there seems to be some Dark Grey on the outer edge,

2) if you look carefully at some of the twisted metal strips on the right, you can see what appears to be another shade of green.

That gets my vote, but then I am biased 🙂

Ahh, Creaking Door has brought the damaged wingtip debate to this good forum! Excellent work sir. I was pleased to read that initial reactions leaned towards the starboard wingtip. The backstory is that we had a good old debate on this over at Zona Militar forum, with a majority leaning towards the port wingtip if I remember rightly.

I’ll reiterate my take on it again for what it’s worth. Given that Argentine Canberras were finished in the NATO colour scheme of our late-era Canberras, you can see here that the Light Aircraft Grey colour (underside and underwing colours) is shown face up. Therefore, if you flip this over, it would be underneath, with the rounded outside edge of the light perspex on the starboard side. This is essentially what Tim said earlier about flipping it.

Therefore I think this is the starboard light. This also matches reports I have read in the book by Jorge Nunez Padin stating that B-108 had its starboard wingtip repaired after missile damage on the 1st May mission. This is just my theory however, perhaps one day someone can get down to that museum and really check it out.

They are superb, especially the shot of the chap reclining in his chair.

I’m itching for this event!! Driving me nuts that I’m going to miss it. I’ll have to content myself with taking VN799 for a virtual spin around Warton in FS2004:p

Aha, a simple answer to a simple question – cheers for that chaps! Curiously though, does that seem to be a DV window on the port side as well, now that it is flipped? Perhaps a T.4 or was that T.13, canopy fitted (or maybe it’s my imagination after a few glasses of wine, lol)

And yes, Tim, it breaks my heart to see any old Cans end up this way. I recall being in the Air Scouts at Wyton and begging our troop leader to ‘save’ a cockpit section when the poor old Wyton Cans were being butchered at the end, but alas, no luck.

Just wondering if anyone can add pics of GATZW which was an all black Canberra chase plane operated from Warton. ?

You know, there was a good colour shot of it on Air Britain I think a while ago, which I used for reference for an FS2004 repaint of G-ATZW:

http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14606

But annoyingly enough, I can’t find it now. There is a b/w shot of it in the Roland Beaumont Canberra book though.

Steve