Spinners

Well, that doesn't rule out FU C and FU K. I wonder if No.453 Sqd RAAF used those combo's? But then again, Aussie's don't swear... (ducks for cover)

Vickers Valiant B.1 (FE) - No.35 Squadron, RAF Pacific Command, 1954

Republic Aviation Thunderbolt FB.4 - No.273 Squadron, RAF Pacific Command, 1947 Skin Credit: File 404 & Charles

Sweet! I was looking for that exact magazine on eBay this weekend. Thanks!

Yes but Russo has a P-47N here also.

Douglas Davenport B.1 - No.97 Squadron, RAF Pacific Command, 1947

Convair Columbia B.1 - No.83 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1948

Lancaster Assembly Ship!

MiG-15bis - Fighter Leaders School, Parani Air Force, 1959

Vought Corsair - No.73 Operational Training Unit, RAF Middle East Command, 1944

The scheme is based on real world RAF P-47D Thunderbolts with No.73 OTU and this unit used both Razorback and Bubbletop Jugs whilst based in Egypt and wore standard ETO camo.

Republic P-47B Thunderbolt - No.8 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1943

Love it and love the name too

Republic P-47B Thunderbolt - 46th Pursuit Squadron, 15th Pursuit Group, United States Army Air Corps, 1941

P-47 at Pearl Harbor!

Republic P-43A-2 Lancer - No.1 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1942 Delays with the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine intended for the new P-47 Thunderbolt meant that orders were placed for an additional 200 P-43 Lancer fighter aircraft in order to keep the Republic production lines operating whilst waiting for P-47 production to start. Of this additional batch of 200 P-43 Lancers, 54 P-43's were allocated to the USAAC, 125 P-43A-1s were allocated to China (under the lend-lease program) with the balance of 21 aircraft being allocated to Dhimar as P-43A-2's. These were eagerly received by a desperate Royal Dhimari Air Force who wasted no time in re-equipping No.1 Squadron during the Spring of 1942 and also the High-Altitude Reconnaissance Flight where the P-43's excellent high-altitude performance enabled it to regularly fly above 40,000ft. In Dhimari service, the Lancer was well regarded and this led Royal Dhimari Air Force officials to push for P-47 Thunderbolts in preference to other types of fighter. Skin Credit: Charles

Lance, er, meet Betty.

Avia S-190D Luňák - 7th Fighter Regiment, Czechoslovakian Air Force, 1949

Avia S-190D - 1st Fighter Regiment ('The Red Lions'), Parani Army Air Force, 1948

Republic P-47N-5 Thunderbolt - No.9 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1949

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt - No.8 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1947

Republic P-47D-21 Thunderbolt - No.9 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1945 With the war in Europe at an end the early Summer of 1945 saw the transfer of equipment from Allied Forces to Dhimar, typical of which were war-weary P-47D's from the USAAF 9th Air Force. By early September 1945 a three-squadron wing of Dhimari P-47D's had been formed at Mosak and began to clear the skies over the Al'Samara region with long-range fighter sweeps followed by fighter-bomber sorties in support of a resurgent Dhimari Army.

Thunderbolt over the desert

'Fighter Squadron' (1948)

Dassault Aviation Mirage IIIVZ - No.2 Squadron, South African Air Force, 1974 Skin Credit: torno