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.

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.

prentice
 

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

That second one is a sad, sad picture.

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

Percival Provost
 

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

Percival P.56 Provost WV601
 

can anyone help with info on the nose checks, they look to be red/white, with standard trainer yellow markingshttps://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...919064b549.jpg

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.

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

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

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

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.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...3d9a161300.jpg

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

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

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/

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.' !:ouch: