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JDK
PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:49 pm 
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As requested by DaveyMac...

Until I was going through my files I'd forgotten I'd taken this shot.

The what and where is easy, but there's something about the markings...

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Why did this aircraft look like this, when and for how long? As I don't recall when I took it or if I ever found anything out, I'll let Mike play, and the answers may only get tested by credibility...

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Iraqi Hwaker Fury markings!?

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Iraqi Hwaker Fury markings!?

Look harder.

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As my eyes get older i need a better photo to look harder!

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British Rondel with Iraqi markings?

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Looks like RAF north African dark earth/middlestone over light blue. Why a Sea Fury would be painted that way is beyond me. Maybe just the owner's preference, or possibly for a movie?

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m charters wrote:
As my eyes get older i need a better photo to look harder!

WYSIWYG. Not having a time machine... As for the eyes, I know what you mean. I reckon I need a checkup. Too many computer hours, rather than eagle-eyed staring into the distance from airfields...
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British Rondel with Iraqi markings?

So close!
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Looks like RAF north African dark earth/middlestone over light blue. Why a Sea Fury would be painted that way is beyond me. Maybe just the owner's preference, or possibly for a movie?

Mmmm. Close, but I'll leave it open and see what else comes up. Mike? Mike?

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It is Hawker Fury G-BTTA when in the ownership of the Hanna's Old Flying Machine Co, and when painted in Iraqi Air Force colours - but on this occasion, those colours have been modified by the addition of RAF roundels and fin flash.


http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?p=1640681

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Welcome to WIX, CDF!

I'm not sure one can get ordinary points feeding back my own writing... Certainly a point for chutzpah. :prayer:

The question here though, as against what I said over on Key is 'Why did this aircraft look like this, when and for how long?' :idea:

One of those has been postulated in the thread on Key, but not the others...

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Thanks JDK

I can't help but think as you didn't get the specific response on the key forum publishing you'd post it here as a quiz.

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I was going through my files I'd forgotten I'd taken this shot.

And then when someone published a response you'd say Eureka! (stockade) ? :D

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CDF wrote:
I can't help but think as you didn't get the specific response on the key forum publishing you'd post it here as a quiz.

Yup! That's about the size of it. The fun of forums is you can never predict what the response is going to be.

However it's the weekend, and people closer to interesting aviation events than me will be out playing ~ but back in the oh, so boring office on Monday. Then we'll see what eventuates.

Cheers!

(PS: As for Eureka, I prefer the triple 8. ;) There's a monument to that in Melbourne.)

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Now had you posted a shot of G-BTTA in Luftwaffe markings for the opening scene in "Fall from Grace" (1994) I would have been impressed.

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Heh heh heh. Who is a heart-breaker?

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Can't show more, it's on a promise to someone else...

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Now had you posted a shot of G-BTTA in Luftwaffe markings for the opening scene in "Fall from Grace" (1994) I would have been impressed.

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Almost looks like an He 100 from that angle.

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