Date of manufacture of a Typhoon
That, my friends, is a simple question. Can you, like the spits, know when a Typhoon is out of factory ?? For example, the MN 877. It is known that it was lost on August 19, 44, at 198sq, pilot Francois Bonnet, but when was it built? What I have best comes from an old "Fana": Slice MM 351 / MP 203, produced by Gloster between January and August 44, MN 877 is on the end, June / July, so fairly new to its disappearance. Four blades with large Stabil ... As a corollary, is there a way of knowin
Hello Pierre. Your English is about on a par with my French, so its ok by me!
I have never seen colour photos of the Typhoon cockpit, except for photos of Hendon's MN235 and Duxford's displayed cockpit section - both of which are restorations and must be treated with caution as sources. I have never found documentary evidence of the cockpit colours but, from various sources I have the opinion (not always shared by others) that the instrument panels were black, the seat and tubular structur