tempestfan

Indeed it looks like that on the stbd wingtip.

It may be a matter of perspective - I'd interpret the white to reach a max width at the split behind the cowling and then remaining constant - but hard to tell without an overhead or profile view. Awesome scheme, in any case!

According to Robertson, the complete batch JX670 to 999 were -5/Mk II.

Is any original source indicated for the pics? Maybe there is another reproduction (I can access) in some other book I own. I can't see anything, and postimg won't let me open it to get a larger version.

Wasn't Silver Cloud an alternative brand to Pegasus in Chris Gannon's latter days? Right, that Aeroguide Special - how could I forget...

"British Experimental Aircraft" (or similar) by Barry Hygate will be very helpful, with scale drawings, text and pics. IIRC there was also a feature article in SMI (1985/6/7 ?) in which the drawings were reprinted.

It's a good one IMO. There's a seller on German ebay who apparently has bought most of AirDocs remaining stock, and sells at cover price - which is 15 € for that Mossie book, post free in Germany. In case you are interested in RCAF, they sell a bundle of @Patrick Martin's Silver Star & CF-104 books with a discount. While it won't be post free to outside of Germany, it may still make sense in case the prices elsewhere are as inflated as I have seen a lot. PM if that could be something for you, and I will send you the link. I see your point, but in 1948 it was a fight for survival comprising a lot of desperate people that had just escaped my native country's KZs, and faced a very similar fate yet again. I have great respect for what they did and how they prevailed. 75+ years onwards - well, I see your point... Lest becoming political, history may have taken a completely different course had the 1948 Palestine partition plan been accepted.

So do I - and I know where 😉 I asked because I think it's the most complete coverage of the topic, and a lot more recent than the two Grub Str. titles quoted as sources in the Aeroflight listing - not sure when AE 83 appeared, Aeroflight's mag listing seems to be down at the mo.

@The wooksta V2.0 - do you happen to have the AirDoc on Israeli Mossies?

There may be something to this - I read somewhere a long time ago that the block numbers increased in 5er increments (usually, and excepting -1 to -5) to accommodate post-production upgrades/retrofits of later-block improvements to earlier blocks.

But does this result in any externally visible difference? Both were evolutions of the same basic German cannon anyway, if I'm not mistaken. There is no "old Airfix plastic", it's a Humbrol mould apparently always owned by Heller (otherwise it would be with Hornby), and the GR.1 and A were tooled and I'm pretty sure also released concurrently under Airfix and Heller brands. The GR. 1 was reboxed by Revell not that long ago, but I don't recall the A being available as anything else than Heller. I agree it would be logical for Airfix to have a French boxing as they already have most of the parts required .

I read somewhere, someplace that actually some of the early Mongogram kits like the GMC and possibly the Weasel were 1/35, though possibly more by accident (and not due to being FTB). Tamiya certainly (at least I know of no one else) were the first to use 1/35 as their "standard" scale - it has to be borne in mind that this happened when most Japanese kits were to metric scales (like 1/50 instead of 1/48 and 1/70 or 1/75 instead of 1/72). Tamiya themselves had a number of 1/21 kits IIRC (not quite so metrical), and there was also a (relatively small) range of 1/30s (Nichimo? Would have to go upstairs). Tamiya themselves had a small 1/48 tank range in the late 60s/early 70s (copied (?) by Academy), Otaki and Mitsuwa in the 70s, but many of them substandard looking from today (my Mitsuwa Jagdpanther is motorised and I think has a cable remote box) and/or lost in the mists of time. ...but then 1/32 (in which quite a few tank kits from the US existed) would have given even more space?

I do not recall having seen any Shrike on any other RAF plane than the Vulcan before or after, as the Martel was the RAF's ARM. I presume they came from Spangdahlem (or possibly stocks held by the USAF in the UK) to effect a makeshift systems integration and emergency clearance before going south. It's very probably in some book - possibly Falklands the Air War, or something specific on the Vulcan, like "From a different Angle". The Aeroguide (29) has nothing, only that Martel and Shrike were tested but Shrike selected.

Now 13,000 single seat jet fighters would make an awesome airforce...

Many thanks for the explanation, I haven't seen any footage before it came down in pieces. Not from my point of view - I wondered what has happened from a technical point of view (with a layman's idea), and @Dave Swindell provided such explanation.