So where is the contest where you paint your Spitfire yellow? Like those chaps from England.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNQf08Kxsw
I know we all have seen this before but I just like it soo much.
Thomas
Yellow Spits Contest
So where is the contest where you paint your Spitfire yellow? Like those chaps from England.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNQf08Kxsw
I know we all have seen this before but I just like it soo much.
Thomas
Never seen it before but it is good!
Must have pancaked a Wimpey.
Kyte.
Apron Paved area surrounding a hanger.
Big City Berlin.
Blood Wagon (Meat Wagon) Ambulance.
Bowser Fuel truck.
Caterpillar Club Membership required an emergency parachute descent from an imperiled aircraft.
Chop Rate RAF slang for loss rate of aircraft on operations.
Collect a Gong Awarded a decoration
Darky RAF radio frequency for emergency calls from returning aircraft.
****ey Flight Training flight where a pilot not experienced on operations or a senior officer returning to operations would go on an op with an experienced crew as a ”second ****ey”.
Dispersal Frying pan shaped concrete or asphalt pad where bombers, were parked, armed and fueled.
Ditching Forced landing of an aircraft over water.
Drem Lighting System of outer markers and approach lights at many British airfields early war.
Elsan Chemical toilet on board the aircraft.
Erk Slang referred to ground crews.
Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) Fog dispersal for runways by using a double row of gasoline-fed burners.
Flight Louie RAF slang for the rank of flight lieutenant
Flimsy List of “friendly” airfields in the war theatre with names, locations, signal letters and secret radio call signs changed every day. Written on rice paper , to be eaten by the navigator rather then fall into enemy hands.
Flip Flight in an aircraft.
Gardening RAF code word for sea/coastal mine laying by aircraft.
George Automatic pilot. “Let George do it”
Gone for a Burton Slang referred to a missing airman or crew
Halibag Slang for Handley Page Halifax bomber.
Lanc Slang for Avro Lancaster bomber
Mae West Life-saving waistcoat for sea survival, named after famous American actress
Main Spar Structural element of an aircraft’s wing that runs through the fuselage
Occult System of beacons positioned along the British coast, with a secondary belt further inland, that flashed Morse code signals to approaching aircraft to help them fix their location.
Operational RAF slang for anything that works
Ops Combat operations or missions.
Pancake Slang for crash-landing aircraft with landing gear retracted.
Prang Slang for crash, destroy or damage an aircraft severely
Scrubbed RAF slang for operation cancelled
Second ****ey RAF slang for a pilot or a new aircraft captain flying with an operationally-seasoned crew to gain experience prior to taking his own assigned crew out on their first operation
Shooting a line Slang for exaggerating one’s accomplishments. In the RAF, “Shooting a line” was considered bad form
Sortie One aircraft doing one trip to target and back
Sprog Slang for inexperienced crew, or newcomers to operations
Tail End Charlie Slang for a tail/rear gunner in a bomber, or pilot of rear aircraft in formation
Take to the silk Slang for bail out an aircraft
Trailing Aerial Cable like radio aerial that was extended and retracted during flight
Undercarriage Landing gear.
Very Pistol Flare gun used for signal.
Wimpy Slang for Vickers Wellington bomber
Wizard Slang for first class, or deserving highest praise
Zephyrs Average winds aloft provided by selected crews and broadcast to all participating bombers on a raid.
Last edited by Flying Officer Kyte; 10-04-2012 at 07:46.
Fo sho blood!
I've actually been considering a yellow spit - because of this sketch.
I love those pilot sketches. I bought the DVD-box, more or less based solely on the strength of those characters (we don't get Armstrong and Miller on TV over here).
/Niclas
Saw them on tour - brilliant !
Gen = information
Duff Gen = Bad information
No Duff = Good information
Italy was ahead. Look at this.
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...nt-possibility
Your their inspiration. Well done.Originally Posted by Angiolillo
Yes! - It is a good colour for a plane!
/Niclas
I have seen those guys many times and they are crazy. Brit humor is hard for some to understand. Maybe thats I loved Benny Hill and Monty Python. Thanks for sharing that video.
Nice paint job on that plane.
funny skit! cool plane! my jeep wrangler is yellow! ;-)
And while we're on the topic of 2-seater spits...
Shades of the Yellow Peril, ww2 trainer.
Germans did that sort of thing, anyway. There is even a couple of such cards in the "Wings of War - Flying Legend" pack.
Didn't Geneva Conventions forbid such things to capured planes???
Yellow was used for the undersides of all trainer, experimental, and captured aircraft by the RAF.
The idea being that this would alert other aircraft and AA guns to watch out for this unusual aircraft, and not shoot it just because it looked suspicious. They were meant to be non-combatant.
Apparently, the Luftwaffe did the same thing - with captured aircraft used in evaluation tests, anyway.
Yet another interesting set of pictures and info Zoe. I am learning more and more about this other war each day.
Thanks again.
Rob.
Great picts Zoe
Glad to be of service!
Given the other meaning of the word "yellow"....
Here is another Yellow Spitfire. She is the mascot of the Fighter Factory Division of Military Aviation Museum! She earned her name after her only airplane ride. Yes it was in a Spitfire!
Rich
Some more Yellow planes.
A few more Yellow planes.
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