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Thank you Wurger! Those two photos you posted are indeed the two that I've seen, although the source (RNZAF museum) claims it's the 122 Wing badge and I'm inclined to agree with them. Thank you very much for the links :)

Hi all, This may be a long shot but I'm wondering if anyone happens to have a clear description, or better yet an illustration, of No. 122 Wing's crest? All I have seen so far is a small and very grainy example on two post war photos of W/C Mackie's Tempest. Regards, HB

Thanks for your replies and my apologies for taking this long to get back. As buffnut points out there seems to be three colours so as a bit of an experimentation I've roughly coloured part of the fuselage in photoshop with two versions. The colours I've approximated are: version 1: Dark Green...

Hi all, Whilst looking at the IWM site for photos of Keith Park I came across this one which, as the title of this thread suggests, has a rather odd paint scheme. I ask purely out of curiosity but if anyone knows more about this aircraft and what colours it was painted in I'd be very interested...

The Ki-84 for me. It has clean, well proportioned lines like the Oscar and Zero but with a stronger hint of utilitarian aggressiveness... in other words it looks more bad-ass ;)

Cool, thanks for the info :) At the risk of exposing myself to ridicule as I'm no engineer but I can see how removing a number of bolts from, say, the empennage and wing roots may work given that the aircraft was not expected to be exposed to anything but moderate maneuvering given the extreme...

By "odd" do you mean how they all vary in style? They look like they've been applied by hand to me which could explain the different styles. I find that the nearest aircraft has a differently proportioned fuselage roundel and that the middle aircraft has a DH prop interesting as well.

Cheers for that. Seeing as it's a B wing in that pic I guess at least some of that order were built as Vb as ordered, or presumably the entire 506 - 534 (or 506 - 551) block? Interesting.

Here's a link with lots of Spitfires in US service: Forums / USAAF / USN Library / American Spitfires - Axis and Allies Paintworks There's something really odd about the second pic of the 1st post. The serial seems to be JK53? which would make it a Vc yet it is a Vb*. Weird! * At first I...

Piper L-4 Grasshopper of the 78th Fighter Group at Duxford.

Sweet photo! But if I may I'd point out that with those markings the photo would be from 1943 rather than '44.

Yeah, that's what I heard as well. I guess we got spoiled by Jerry Yagen with KA114 and all the flying it did here before going to the States. Still, I hope we still get some decent vids of its test flights and as I'm in Auckland I hope to be able to go see it fly.