Pat C Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Would I be correct in thinking that the FRADU Canberra T4s were painted in all over Light Aircraft Grey? Was looking on the FRADU Canberras website and one of the machines appears much lighter than the others (almost white) and wondered if this was just due to the lighting conditions or if it was in fact, a different colour. Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 5 hours ago, Pat C said: Would I be correct in thinking that the FRADU Canberra T4s were painted in all over Light Aircraft Grey? Was looking on the FRADU Canberras website and one of the machines appears much lighter than the others (almost white) and wondered if this was just due to the lighting conditions or if it was in fact, a different colour. Pat Hi Pat Yes by and large Light Aircraft Grey, with the odd (rare) High Speed Silver one. no white or exotic colours. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 Thanks John - much appreciated. That's the scheme for my S&M T4 decided then! pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Just now, Pat C said: Thanks John - much appreciated. That's the scheme for my S&M T4 decided then! pat Good choice Pat! John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 John - sorry me again. Any idea where I can find out what the top of the wing looks like in terms of roundel placement and day glo strips for the RN T4s? I can see underwing the roundel is situated towards the wing tip and sits on 4 day glo strips than run front to back. Does the top wing roundel do something similar I was wondering? Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 1 minute ago, Pat C said: John - sorry me again. Any idea where I can find out what the top of the wing looks like in terms of roundel placement and day glo strips for the RN T4s? I can see underwing the roundel is situated towards the wing tip and sits on 4 day glo strips than run front to back. Does the top wing roundel do something similar I was wondering? Pat No problem Pat, I've closed the laptop down for thd night, I'll dig some info out tomorrow for you, unless someone beats me to it that is. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 OK Pat, here we go the answer is, no idea! I have photos of the top side of the TT.18 and T.22 but nothing for the T.4! Now there are two possibilities some definitely follow the RAF standard, and some follow the FRADU pattern no fin flash and Royal Navy on the fuselage and number on the nose so I would venture that the top of the wing would follow the same convention as the TT.18 and T.22 with the small roundel, in the back of my mind I think we've been down this road before on another thread, sorry not to have conclusive answer. I'm guessing this one is ex RAF with fin flash and big roundels? Another ex RAF but with what looks like a replacement tail unit painted white? This one looks like full FRADU mode John 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 Thx John _ interesting that WJ866 (859) kept the RAF fin flash even though it appears to have been repainted from silver to LAG whilst with FRADU. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloegin57 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 On 3/20/2019 at 7:48 PM, canberra kid said: OK Pat, here we go the answer is, no idea! I have photos of the top side of the TT.18 and T.22 but nothing for the T.4! Now there are two possibilities some definitely follow the RAF standard, and some follow the FRADU pattern no fin flash and Royal Navy on the fuselage and number on the nose so I would venture that the top of the wing would follow the same convention as the TT.18 and T.22 with the small roundel, in the back of my mind I think we've been down this road before on another thread, sorry not to have conclusive answer. John - that is one interesting photo you have put up. All RN aircraft, including Canberras, were restricted to a roundel size of 36 inches yet that aircraft has mainplane roundels smaller than that. Further more all FRADU aircraft had initially dayglo bands on fuselage and mainplanes and yet this aircraft does not. Puzzling !. Not quite T.Mk.4's, but in the April 1985 issue of Aircraft Modelworld, there was an article of FRADU Canberras with some very useful and dimensioned drawings. I have attached the centre spread from that article in the hope that it provides some assistance particularly in roundel/serial position and band width. : - Hope this helps Dennis 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 All I can say in my defence Dennis is, it's a Canberra what do you expect! John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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