One of the old b&w episodes of “The Avengers” featured Steed wandering around a deserted airfield on which was parked a Mosquito. Could have been RR233 at Hatfield or maybe RS712 at West Malling???

When “No.6” escapes from “The Village” in “The Prisoner” he is taken back in a two seat Meteor and when flying over the pilot ejects him – much to his chagrin. I think its one of the Martin-Baker examples.

Oh well – back to work!

a contact address or e-mail for Peter Teichman?

Thanks in advance.

Dave J

Try [email]peter@kashie.com[/email]
http://www.hangar11.co.uk

Nice to see her in the open. anyone know why she has ‘painted on’ windows on the fuselage? I’ve always found it curious.

The windows were sprayed over when she was camouflaged to represent Winston Churchill’s personal York during her days at Staverton with the Skyfame Museum.

I presume Cosford just painted in the windows rather than cleaning off the old paint.

Here she is at Staverton – 23rd April 1966 (Brownie 127 print)

Having looked at the film and looked at the photos that I took at that time I would say I’m pretty certain that this is the 1965 Coventry Air Display (& King’s Cup Air Race) which was held on 21 August that year.

The problem is that many of those mid-sixties displays were very similar in terms of the aircraft that showed up (a bit like today really!!)

If it was 1965 then the Hurricane was G-AMAU flown by Bill Bedford, the Hart was there too that year, whether the fact that it is not in the film is significant I don’t know!

I seem to recall a recent thread in which “Fluffy” said that Black 6 was actually restored to airworthy condition. The engine is inhibited and she could fly again if the policy was changed … although that is very unlikely.

Hi Thomas,
I hope that this information will be of some help.
308 City of Krakow Fighter Squadron
09 Sept 1940 308 Krakow Fighter Squadron(drawn from survivors of 2 Krakow Air regiment) formed at Blackpool.
16 Sept 1940 308 moved to Speke near Liverpool,then to Bagington near Coventry.
Commander S/L Davis killed in training flight.
01 Dec 1940 posted operational,given night fighter duties for which their Hurricanes unsuitable(difficult and dangerous to land in the dark).
1941 at Northolt.
1960’s Bruno Kudrewicz became publican of The White Hart in Thatcham.
Howard. 🙂

It’s BAGINTON not Bagington 🙂

Hmm…

Reminds me of my bedroom ceiling circa 1965

Just 1:1 instead of 1:72 scale!