Pete, indeed it is the annual 208 reunion. RAF Club Sat 27 Oct 1830 for 1930 Lounge suit guests welcome £36 per head. If you are interested suggest you email Hon Sec
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Forget, thanks for the info. I am glad she was scrapped and is probably now giving someone useful service as a saucepan, rather than languishing in a sadder and sadder state as a gate guardian.
I am a bit puzzled about the German model kit which shows Queenie fitted with the old-style canopy with the solid rear end. In "my ownership" she had the clear-view canopy all round. However these were a bit fragile. I had one blow out on me (not in "Queenie") cllimbing out of Khartoum for Juba, at about FL200. Back at Khartoum it was found that the perspex fragments had peppered the fin and rudder. The holes could be patched temporarily with fabric and dope but I had to wait for a replacement canopy from Abu Sueir, which was the old style canopy when it arrived. I was supposed to be weekending at Eastleigh and Khartoum was no substitute ! (bloody sh**hole). I notice that at one stage she was in 8 Sqn colours (8 subsumed our detachment at Khormaksar when 208 disbanded on Meatboxes, I believe). So maybe that was when she was fitted with the old-style canopy because clear ones were in short supply. The corgi model of "Queenie" shows her with the clear view canopy but the wrong colour scheme. MEAF aircraft were finished in aluminium paint. Thanks again for your research.