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The great Typhoon , should have pointed out the Napier Saber engine there at Wigram when we were walky bouts .. they do say it had this unique whine to it incoming .. only one left in the world now so I guess we will never know.

A mighty beast...when the recovery guys get it out of the lake, I'll try another take-off

I told you Mike .. Its not a flying boat

here's a paint with a kiwi connection:




Typhoon JP975 as it may have looked on the 19th of August 1944, when it crashed near Saint-Maclou-la-Brière, a small village near Le Havre. JP975 was piloted by pilot Officer James Stellin RNZAF, who was flying with 609 squadron, based in Thorney Island airfield. On the 19th of August, 609 had been attacking the Falaise pocket when James Stellin was probably hit by flak while attacking ground targets. He tried to fly back to England, but was losing altitude and on realizing he was probably going to crash in the middle of the village, managed to divert to crash at the last moment. He jumped from his aircraft, but was too low and his chute did not open. He was buried by the thankful civilians, who celebrated his sacrifice each year and have named the square in front of the church 'Place Stellin'. More on the last mission by Pilot Officer Stellin can be found here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/kiwi-...french-village. Do read the letter from the local teacher to the pilots parents that can be found at the end of this page.
It is not known what the aircraft code of JP975 was on the day of the crash, so I have opted for PR-S, for Stellin.

JK: Great paint and follow up on the history as well

Be one I'll have to cab rank , cool paint

here's a few more for you:

I have an extract from in a brook here were a formation of Tiffies were heading to the target this stage still in echelon coming up on target when flak come up, most all the formation come thru unscathed bar one, a burst of flak under one aircraft did not destroy it but the pilot was wounded , he was paralyses, nothing they could do for him as they went onto attack. that Typhoon flew off in the distance still able to talk .. just a case of waiting for the fuel to run out.

two more paints now available:




and with the last paint I included updates for the AH 245 & 440 squadron repaints that had wrong flap textures. They now look like this:

Great paints , That deep tan white and black stripe is a unique one, suppose that was an aircraft establishment test aircraft ?

"Typhoon JP975 as it may have looked on the 19th of August 1944, when it crashed near Saint-Maclou-la-Brière, a small village near Le Havre. JP975 was piloted by pilot Officer James Stellin RNZAF, who was flying with 609 squadron, based in Thorney Island airfield. On the 19th of August, 609 had been attacking the Falaise pocket when James Stellin was probably hit by flak while attacking ground targets. He tried to fly back to England, but was losing altitude and on realizing he was probably going to crash in the middle of the village, managed to divert to crash at the last moment. He jumped from his aircraft, but was too low and his chute did not open. He was buried by the thankful civilians, who celebrated his sacrifice each year and have named the square in front of the church 'Place Stellin'. More on the last mission by Pilot Officer Stellin can be found here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/kiwi-... ... ch-village. Do read the letter from the local teacher to the pilots parents that can be found at the end of this page. "
It is not known what the aircraft code of JP975 was on the day of the crash, so I have opted for PR-S, for Stellin.[quote="jankees"]two more paints now available:

Looks like the link to the story about Pilot Officer stellin is no longer working Jankee.

A lot of heroic deeds from all in during those years, I think that is were today's interest really makes it something that will never before gotten, you only have to read it then imagine the thought happening in the moment.

There you go ...nice work Mike

It'd be great to see some Kiwi repaints for this as some of us have only recently discovered it...or of the two airworthy restoration projects, JP843 in Canada (with Kiwis involved) and RB396 in the UK. There's artwork showing what RB will look like (I've built a couple of Airfix kits of her) and a couple of wartime photos of JP.