Interesting or unusual planes?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it's geese!

[Steph]

I like the pun here:

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Be warned people, I am going to the Waddington Air Show tomorrow. I am taking two cameras, five lenses, three batteries, several memory cards. There will be pictures !!!!!!!

Dave Yates

[clarion]

Cool.  Looking forward to those.

In the meantime, I can report several spots close to Headcorn.

There were two hollanda: One Tiger Moth, and one other.  A Cessna 172 style aircraft, and a low winged monoplane with spats I couldn't identity.

[pcolbeck]

Here is a picture of the weird Bell Geospace BT-67 that's been flying over the Wolds a lot last week. Its a converted up graded DC-3. Check out the modern engines.

[Riggers]

Be warned people, I am going to the Waddington Air Show tomorrow. I am taking two cameras, five lenses, three batteries, several memory cards. There will be pictures !!!!!!!

Dave Yates

"Here's one, you can just make it out in the mist. And another. Apologies for all the drops of rain on the lens!!"

[clarion]

Cool.  Looking forward to those.

In the meantime, I can report several spots close to Headcorn.

There were two hollanda: One Tiger Moth, and one other.  A Cessna 172 style aircraft, and a low winged monoplane with spats I couldn't identity.

Hollanda?  WTF?  Silly phone, what's one of them?  I meant biplanes

[madcow]

Was that the Elvington Vulcan doing circuits over York at around 1315hrs today?

No pics as it was too far away .

[spesh]

Was that the Elvington Vulcan doing circuits over York at around 1315hrs today?

No pics as it was too far away .

Could be, which is good, because she's been grounded since lunching two engines in May after an incident with a silica gel packet...

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/368/82/Initial-test-flight-completed.html

[clarion]

Thanks for the link.  I see they are planning more flights soon

[Aidan]

Here is a picture of the weird Bell Geospace BT-67 that's been flying over the Wolds a lot last week. Its a converted up graded DC-3. Check out the modern engines.

That was out over Kilburn and Coxwold this afternoon. We'd taken FiL for his first gliding lesson off Sutton Bank this morning too! He's 76 !

[Rig of Jarkness]

An impressively close formation of Typhoons over Edinburgh for Armed Forces Day

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Be warned people, I am going to the Waddington Air Show tomorrow. I am taking two cameras, five lenses, three batteries, several memory cards. There will be pictures !!!!!!!

Dave Yates

"Here's one, you can just make it out in the mist. And another. Apologies for all the drops of rain on the lens!!"

Went on the Sunday and weather was OK initially then clouded over so all the big formation displays were flat. Got some reasonable pics which I will post as soon as I sort them out.

Dave yates

[CrinklyAuntie]

The Crinkly pride went to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland and we saw this 

[Cudzoziemiec]

I saw one of them recently parked at Filton. That means there must be at least two of them left in the world! It looked surprisingly small in the metal.

[Adrian]

I saw one of them recently parked at Filton. That means there must be at least two of them left in the world! It looked surprisingly small in the metal.

I cycle past that quite often. They are small.

[fuzzy]

As I left work yesterday afternoon, I could hear what i thought was a Merlin approaching. A few seconds later Iw as overflown by what looked like a Spitfire which had an unusual paint job- full length mid line split black or dark blue and white/ light blue (aircraft was displaying what looked to be allied rondels). This aircraft was accompanied by an Me 109.

Lovely sight and sound.

[spesh]

As I left work yesterday afternoon, I could hear what i thought was a Merlin approaching. A few seconds later Iw as overflown by what looked like a Spitfire which had an unusual paint job- full length mid line split black or dark blue and white/ light blue (aircraft was displaying what looked to be allied rondels). This aircraft was accompanied by an Me 109.

Lovely sight and sound.

The colour scheme you mention does seem to be quite close to what was applied to Spitfires shipped to Malta on USS Wasp in 1942.

http://hsfeatures.com/maltabluesse_1.htm

By the way, the vast majority of airworthy Bf109s are actually Hispano HA-1112 Buchóns.

[TimC]

As I left work yesterday afternoon, I could hear what i thought was a Merlin approaching. A few seconds later Iw as overflown by what looked like a Spitfire which had an unusual paint job- full length mid line split black or dark blue and white/ light blue (aircraft was displaying what looked to be allied rondels). This aircraft was accompanied by an Me 109.

Lovely sight and sound.

Possibly this?



I'm not sure if it's in UK just now, but it is a fairly regular visitor. There was a Spitfire in a similar scheme (TD248), but I think that's back in camouflage now. BBMF has one Spitfire in plain silver, and a couple of PRXIXs in plain PR blue, and I have a feeling there was a two-seat Spitfire in a silver scheme with a black horizontal stripe, but I can't find it just now.

[TimC]

Found this: RN201. Used to be at Duxford, but I think is in the USA now. Is this something like what you saw?

[TimC]

I saw one of them recently parked at Filton. That means there must be at least two of them left in the world! It looked surprisingly small in the metal.

There are several. The East Fortune one (G-BOAA) that the CrinklyPride saw; G-BOAB at Heathrow awaiting placing on display at T5, G-BOAF at Bristol Filton, G-BOAC at Manchester airport, G-BBDG at Brooklands, G-BOAE in Barbados,  G-BOAD in New York at the USS Intrepid musem, G-BOAG in Seattle, F-BVFF at Charles de Gaulle airport, F-BTSD at Le Bourget, Paris, F-BVFA at the Smithsonian at Washington Dulles airport, F-BVFB somewhere in Germany. Plus the development aircraft G-BSST at Yeovilton, Somerset, G-AXDN at Duxford and a couple in France.

[fuzzy]

Found this: RN201. Used to be at Duxford, but I think is in the USA now. Is this something like what you saw?

Sorry Tim, my description probably wasn't good. The colour split was on the underside, full legth with a centre line split, so port wing was dark and starboard was light (I think it was that way round).

[TimC]

Aha. That's a very early WW2 camouflage scheme, so it shouldn't be too difficult to identify...

[TimC]

Spitfire Mk1a P9374:

[fuzzy]

Spitfire Mk1a P9374:

That's the baby!

I think it had encoutered a rip in the time/ space continuinuinum and was escorting Fritz back to base to enable the boffins to examine his Me 109.