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[wolfik]

thanks! now I know how to paint these  
by the way....wears canadian pilots in 1950 helmets allready?
I have a nice british pilot figure for early jet aircrafts and was thinking to give this mate an aicraft  
best regards!

[John Howling Mouse]

thanks! now I know how to paint these 
by the way....wears canadian pilots in 1950 helmets allready?
I have a nice british pilot figure for early jet aircrafts and was thinking to give this mate an aicraft 
best regards!

Here's a pic that was captioned as being of Robert H Gray in a Korean War era Corsair (Royal Navy) and he seems to be wearing a bone-dome in this shot.  My gut feeling is that this photo could actually be a more recent image of a more contemporary Corsair made to look like Gray's (?).

[Ginge!]

Hammy Gray was killed in 1944, so I'm thinking that caption is quite wrong.

I've seen a pic somewhere of an F-51 with an RCAF pilot wearing a similar style helmet though, so Peter, you should be OK with that. Besides...it's a whif!  ^_^

I think some people on this site have forgotten what that means.    

[Jeffry Fontaine]

If you are going to go with crash protection of that era, I would strongly recommend that you consider the flight gear of the early jet aircraft then in use such as the F9F Panther & Cougar, F1H Phantom, F2H Banshee,  FJ1 Fury/F-86 Sabre, F-80 Shooting Star, & F-84 Thunderjet.  Aircrew of these aircraft all wore a similar style helmet and you can exploit the Revell of Germany (Monogram) F-86 kit for a standing pilot figure in the appropriate attire.  The Revell/Monogram F-80 Shooting Star kit provides a seated pilot figure with the early helmet.  I can not remember if the F-84 came with the pilot figure or not, but it would not hurt to check those kits as well. 

[rallymodeller]

Korean war?  Hardly.  British Pacific Fleet circa 1945 and all (or at least most) of our Corsairs went straight over the side as soon as the war ended.  It's a modern warbird mocked up in those colours.

Sure I've got those markings somewhere.

To be more specific, that's actually Canadian Warplane Heritage's old FG-1D Corsair. I believe it was sold to a private collector some years ago. I could be more specific, but as of this typing CWH's site appears to be down.

[Radish]

Hammy Gray, VC, was killed in August '45.
One of the last strikes of the war.
Many British FAA aircraft were dumped, as Wooksta says, over the side.
The USN did the same....much cheaper and easier than returning them to the US.
The RNZAF Corsairs were lined up in Japan when they were superfluous for Occupation duties and torched.
Some RN Lend Lease aircraft were retained, for example, I built a RN Corsair IV (FG-1D) in a trainining unit markings....the unit wasn't formed until post-war!
Also, the RAF flew Lend Lease stuff certainly until the end of '46, nearly 18 months after the end of the war in Europe...eg Mustangs III and IVs of 112 Sqn. They were scrapped as the RAF withdrew from Italy......not for tactical reasons, just that the Government had no money left to keep them there.