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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2007 21:00:21 GMT 12
From early on in the war the colours of the more plentiful training types - Tiger Moths, Oxfords, Harvards and Vincents, was Trainer Yellow.
Would the Wigram-based Fairey Gordons and the Avro 626's of No. 1 SFTS also have been resprayed in the yellow scheme to bring them into line with the other types? I've only seen reference to these types being silver doped. Has anyone seen any evidence of these two types in yellow?
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jul 30, 2007 11:40:37 GMT 12
Was there not a silver with yellow band scheme on some aircraft?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 30, 2007 11:56:40 GMT 12
That was a postwar scheme Joe, though I have read in a very old NZ Wings article (1977) that some Harvards had iniially arrived in such a scheme in 1941 or 42, as i believe they'd been factory painted for the RAF in that scheme. They didn't last long in it during the war if that's true.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Aug 1, 2007 10:27:17 GMT 12
Would there be reference to any of these schemes in the Contact magazines you have, or are they later than the period you refer to?
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Post by Bruce on Aug 1, 2007 11:16:11 GMT 12
I think some Gordons were painted yellow - especially those used as target tugs. I cant be sure though, although I have seen black and white pictures of the TT Gordons and although they are painted a single colour overall, the luminance looks different to a silver scheme (although this is not a reliable judge of colour as different films and print processes could cause this effect)
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