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Post by Colin D on Oct 11, 2017 0:57:42 GMT
Question: (click for a larger version) The insets are numbered from left to right.
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Post by rummer on Oct 11, 2017 5:10:54 GMT
Inset 2 Hendon aircraft museum.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 11, 2017 6:04:56 GMT
Inset 3 Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire
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Post by arun on Oct 11, 2017 9:20:24 GMT
I'd go for RAF Northolt for inset 2 as it is a Polish squadron spitfire
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Post by brigham on Oct 11, 2017 11:30:05 GMT
Is that a Spitfire? I thought it was the Hurricane at RAF Uxbridge.
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Post by harbour on Oct 11, 2017 12:38:42 GMT
+1 for RAF Uxbridge
Spitfire wingtips are a very distinctive shape, so it must be a Hurricane with those rounded wings
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Oct 11, 2017 13:08:50 GMT
+1 for RAF Uxbridge Spitfire wingtips are a very distinctive shape, so it must be a Hurricane with those rounded wings Easily identifiable as a Hurricane by the single, centrally mounted intake under the fuselage, the inward retracting undercarriage and the keel prior to the tailwheel. No Spitfire ever had this arrangement. Spitfire wings however did take several different shapes. If you enlarge this illustration and look at the left hand side plan-forms you can see pointed, very pointed (high altitude) and clipped (low altitude) versions. Later marks (21-24 inclusive) had a totally different shaped wing to those shown below into the bargain.
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Post by littlejohn on Oct 11, 2017 15:42:27 GMT
I spent most of my last 10 years in the RAF at Uxbridge and Northolt so I should know but embarrassingly I don't - either because things have changed in the last 20 or so years or because old age has caught up with me. It is certainly a Polish Hurricane but the MQs in the background look suspiciously like the one I had at Uxbridge and the wall looks like the one at the end of my garden. On the other side was the entrance to the Battle of Britain Bunker - does this now have a 'Gate Guardian'?
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Post by Colin D on Oct 12, 2017 2:51:31 GMT
Answer: Inset 2: Spitfire at Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge [ caravelle ] (click for a larger version) Inset 3: Bolton Castle - Leyburn, North Yorkshire 2009 [ howda62 ] (click for a larger version) Anyone for the main location and inset one?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 4:31:14 GMT
Putney Bridge?
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Oct 12, 2017 5:47:54 GMT
Answer: Inset 2: Spitfire at Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge [ caravelle ] (click for a larger version) Colin D , that's a Hurricane, most definitely not a Spitfire.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 12, 2017 6:30:58 GMT
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Post by caravelle on Oct 12, 2017 6:45:32 GMT
My fault. The caption was my responsibility. Please don't crucify poor Colin D
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Oct 12, 2017 6:52:37 GMT
My fault. The caption was my responsibility. Please don't crucify poor Colin D
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Post by littlejohn on Oct 12, 2017 9:48:31 GMT
Yes, things have changed - in my day there was no Hurricane over my garden wall (seeing my old home brought back a flood of memories, most of them pleasant). As I recall the Gate Guardians at Northolt and Uxbridge were both Spitfires although a Hurricane is much more appropriate for the Battle of Britain, in which the Spitfire played a relatively minor role. I think all Gate Guardians are replicas now and the real ones sold off to aircraft restoration companies. Apologies for the digression.
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