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Netko wrote:

I'm sure it will be obvious when someone tells me but I can't for the life of
me identify this aircraft being landed by Eric Brown on a Royal Navy carrier.
Will someone please put me out of my misery?

The photograph is a grab from a forthcoming TV programme about Brown (BBC2
this Sunday if you're in the UK). Details of the programme (complete with
some film clips) are at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045pbq2

The great man seems on fine form but I'm tempted to strangle whoever is
responsible for that background music.
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Bell P-39 (or P-400) Airacobra.