Aeroplane Monthly 1977-01
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Half a dozen Hawker Hurricane IIcs of No 1 Squadron, RAF, about September 1942. The nearest aircraft is Z3778.
The Battle of Britain Flight’s Spitfire V AB910, on our inside front cover, was photographed by PETER M. WARREN in November 1969, when Wg Cdr George Black was having a final flip before leaving the Flight, then based at Coltishall.
Pannier-equipped Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax CVIIl military transport PP285, c/n 1358, powered by four Bristol Hercules 100 engines, was photographed by CHARLES E. BROWN early in 1945. Although many Halifax transports joined the civil register, PP285 served only in the RAF.
Handley Page H.P.67 Hastings C.1 TG505 upp from its RAF Scampton base in July 1976.