Percival Provost

[sagindragin]

Percival P.40 Prentice T.1

hi gentlemen i am in the process of completing a profile of this Aircraft, struggling to find details of stencilling on the port fuselage side, the pictures i have show another one just in front of the tail wheel, also i think there may be another word on the fin before the lower "clamp here"
thank you for your help.

[LynxDriver]

Have you tried approaching one of the many scale model decal producers? Maybe someone like Model Alliance or Xtradecal may have the info you seek.

[sagindragin]

prentice

i was hoping someone had a closer or clearer image of the scrapped ones at Southampton, something like this but clearer

[Herod]

That second one is a sad, sad picture.

[Planemike]

Southend, not Southampton....... The great Prentice graveyard.........!!

[sagindragin]

hi guys, just starting the next set of profiles so looking for any period images of the Provost, from any country, the more images the more profiles, i only do one with photo proof of scheme

[sagindragin]

Percival P.56 Provost WV601

can anyone help with info on the nose checks, they look to be red/white, with standard trainer yellow markings

[sagindragin]

Percival P.56 Provost

ok just so you know there are now 136 Provost profiles uploaded to my Flickr account, 17 more to do then i move back to what i started 14 years ago, the Vultee Vengeance.

Flickr Slideshows (Photostreams)

[chevvron]

As an ATC cadet, normally you would fly in a Chipmunk, but on attending my first camp at Little Rissington in 1962, I was allocated a Provost flight.
This rather spoilt me for later flights in Chipmunks as with the Provost, I could actually watch how my 'instructor' (actually a doctor from station sick quarters) handled the controls and copy him, something which would have been impossible in the Chipmunk.
The Provost was XF680

[Wander00]

Pilot magazine just received contains flight test of the Piston Provost. Just read it, still grinning, an aircraft I have always want to experience

[Fitter2]

Hi Chevvron

I also had an ATC camp flight in a Provost, at Shawbury in '58. half an hour in the instructor announced 'Keep it straight and level fo a couple of minutes', produced a sick bag, and peed copiously into it; slid back the cockpit to chuck it out, announced 'I have control' and wound it into a tight turn to see if he had hit a target. Shortly after he spotted a Chipmunk and we snuck up behind and below, until after a few minutes he spotted us. A Chipmunk can definitely beat a Provost in a tight turning mock combat. F2

[chevvron]

Another advantage of course was the view; with the Provost you were sitting quite high with an excellent view all round whereas in the back seat of a Chipmunk the sides of the cockpit limited the view sideways and the pilot in front limited the view that way too.

[brakedwell]

This photo of a Ternhill Provost was taken over Shropshire in 1956.

[sycamore]

BD,I can hear that Leonides `hummmmm` from here ....!!

[pulse1]

sagindragin, If you can watch the film "High Flight" you will find excellent clips of Piston Provosts behaving badly.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049313/

[chevvron]

One day a guy was flying to Biggin in a Provost for the Air Fair. The Farnborough Radar controller asked if he could do a flypast to which he replied 'OK but I can't do anything spectacular 'cos I've got baggage and wife on board.'
A minute later he said 'sorry I got that wrong, I should have said wife and baggage.' !