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Post by mauld on Mar 27, 2012 22:29:49 GMT 12
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Post by gunny on Mar 28, 2012 2:30:30 GMT 12
nice, so the pink was for tunisia and nth africa ect camo like the L.R.D.G patrols but not widley used on aircraft from memory?
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Post by angelsonefive on Mar 28, 2012 5:42:30 GMT 12
As far as I know the pink camo. was used on UK based PR Spitfires and was intended to conceal the aircraft when operating in those parts of the day when the sky was that colour, i.e. dawn and sunset.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 28, 2012 9:39:51 GMT 12
They did use it in North Africa too. In 2009 I met an old English chap in the Rotorua RSA who had been groundcrew on a small PRU unit in the North Africa desert. He told me they had three aircraft, a Beaufighter, a Hurricane and a Spitfire. I cannot recall which was which but he said one was PRU Blue, one PRU Pink and one was White overall.
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Post by baz62 on Mar 28, 2012 16:08:51 GMT 12
I think its back in PRU Blue now?
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Post by nuuumannn on Apr 9, 2012 17:12:35 GMT 12
Yep. If I can remember it's back in the UK now after a stint in the USA. That footage was taken in 2000 at East Fortune in Scotland. The Spit belonged to Tony 'Taff' Smith and was at that time based with the Real Aeroplane Company at Breighton in Yorkshire. It flew a double act with the black Hurricane flown by Brian Brown, who sadly lost his life flying the Hurricane a couple of years ago. They were the Pink and Black Duo and we used to get them at our events quite often because they were more affordable than the Old Flying Machine Company, who cost too much because of transit time from Duxford to Turnhouse (Edinburgh) meant an overnight in Newcastle. The aircraft is PR.XI PL965 and wore the pink scheme whilst based in France with 16 Sqn. It was thought the pink made the aircraft less visible at dawn and dusk and was a shade lighter than this. I've seen a photo of it in colour in a book somewhere. It sure looked different.    I think I spent most of this airshow inside the Vulcan as usual. I think I did a bit of commentary on one of the days, but I can't remember. |
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