Spanish D.H.9A, with locally modified Napier Lion and attendant plumming, bombed up and ready to go at Melilla.

MH434: Belgian prang. Sir, Your March issue printed photographs of MH434 after a wheels-up landing in Indonesia in 1949. You may therefore be interested in this further photograph of MH434 in an unhappy position. I believe this to have been taken in 1953 or ’54 during service with the Belgian Air Force, serial SM 41. ADRIAN SWIRE, London EC4

Boulton Paul Balliol T.2 WN508 being refuelled at Middle Wallop, circa 1953-54.