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Old 25th Aug 2013, 18:02
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I've done a bit more digging on the pic I posted @#10 yesterday.

I believe this is a very early picture, possibly taken as 43 Squadron became equipped with the Phantom. If you care to look at G banking away and compare with XT879 in the foreground, you'll notice that the Squadron's chequerboard stripe looks as if it is being "sucked in" to the intakes on XT879. Apparently this was the initial delivery default paint job that was subsequently corrected to the positioning (fuselage roundel moved aft) shown on G (4 squares showing as opposed to 2 and a bit).



It would be great to try and fix the date ...

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Coff.

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