"Jeb" wrote in message
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"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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(type in DOGG and you can see a picture of my plane)

Nice colours Paul, RAF training but what year?

Ah, there's a story behind this. It was painted in these colours
in 1997. It's unique. As you know (explanation for others
reading this) the RAF found the best colour for conspicuity was
black. Thus they decided to repaint their training fleet in black.

They experimented first of all on their old Bulldogs. Three (as
far as I know) were painted in a black colour with yellow over
the top (as seen on http://www.warbirdalley.com/bulldog.htm).
Two of these are in the UK, one in the US. They decided not
to repaint the rest of the Bulldog fleet as they'd made the decision
to retire them within a few years.

However...back to mine. Mine was used as the airshow aircraft
and was thus given a colour scheme incorporating the "new" RAF
training colours, black with yellow markings. It was designed by
Paul Margetts, the RAF display pilot as a sunburst aerobatic scheme,
representative of that seen (in different colours) on various aerobatic
aircraft.

I bought my plane off the RAF in 2001. I took that photograph at
RAF Shawbury on the day I picked it up.

More photos of the US black and yellow one, as well as photos of
the "normal" RAF red and white colour:
http://www.scottishaviation.com/photos/

Some more pictures of mine he
http://www.geocities.com/ukdefense/bulldog-uk-1.jpg (not me flying)
http://mysite.freeserve.com/airbase/...ldog/gdogg.jpg
http://mysite.freeserve.com/airbase/...dog/gdogg2.jpg

Paul