Seeing as his wife pleaded guilty, I think one can assume that BW has his fingerprints all over this.

”An American woman who became a rogue weapons trader pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally helping Iran arm itself during the last 20 years.

Laura Wang-Woodford and her fugitive husband amassed a large fortune by illegally selling embargoed weapons, technology and equipment to Iran.

Wang-Woodford, 64, entered her plea today before a federal judge in Brooklyn. She pleaded guilty to charges of violating U.S. trade embargoes by sending munitions and controlled information, including technology for American Chinook military helicopters and other aircraft.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7076770&page=1#.TsveqLJvsos

Apologies to John Crook for steering thread a bit off topic 😮

Having met Brian Woodford several times at Woburn and Badminton in the ’80s where he used to bring his DH vintage fleet, this is quite a shock to me!
The last I had heard was that he had left his wife and run off to Ireland with one of the wing-walking girls! He abandoned his vintage fleet and his wife was left to sell them off. Looks like the whole thing has changed.
Whatever, it would still be fantastic to see G-ADDI brought back to the UK and restored properly.

It could have been anything applied by Blackburn, but I wonder if it was Aircraft Blue (BS381C 110) – i seem to recall an FAA Hunter painted with that colour on the upper surface. – it’s slightly lighter than Roundel Blue

Dave, I think you are referring to the three FAA Admiral’s Barge Hunter T.8s that were successively based at Yeovilton in the ’60s. This same colour blue was applied overall to a Sea Prince and I wouldn’t mind betting the NA.39 prototype was also in the same shade of blue.

Adrian

Photos of that design still adorn the Sqn – but there is a possibility of a more up to date version shortly . . . . !

Tony H

Can’t wait to see that. I submitted three designs and this one was chosen ‘ as being most subdued for an operational theatre’. I even cut out the stencils and painted the tiger emlem on the nose…..well I had to find something worthwhile to do down there, as I got fed up penguin spotting!;)

The NA.39 development aircraft certainly do seem to have had a unique blue upper scheme, which I had assumed was applied by Blackburns rather than the service.

I know that the subject of paint and shades can be a bit of an emotive one!

DaveF68 is correct in that all early Buccaneers were EDSG on upper surfaces, which later gave way to EDSG overall. The prototype NA.39, XK486,had Royal Blue upper surfaces. You may recall that the third prototype, XK488, was outside the FAA Museumm at Yeovilton incorrectly painted in this scheme for years and is now being restored in the correct colours, after I sent them colour photos.

Crickey, it doesn’t seem that I was in the Falklands 20 years ago and designed this special paint scheme for a Sea King to commemorate their 75th Anniversay.

I would need to double check, and happy to be proved wrong, but normally Extra Dark Sea Grey was the colour used.
RAF B/G tended to be used for VIP and COD aircraft.

NO Navy Wessexes were painted Extra Dark Sea Grey James! I think you’re getting confused with the colour FAA fighter aircraft were painted in. Phantom Phil is correct – RAF blue-grey was the colour.

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I will see if I can find any paperwork for any of the Ansons. We used to have a blue one that we used for taking cattle to Turkey. I may have some photos as well.

Those would be worth seeing! I can’t imagine how you would get one cow through an Anson’s door, let alone several?:eek: