On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:26:16 +0000, Netko
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:05:32 +0000, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote
(in article ):


Interesting paint scheme!

Sand-coloured doubtless because it was flying from a ship of the desert.

....and here I thought only C-46s flew over the hump.

Less obscurely, it belonged to a land-based RN unit in North Africa - one
squadron of Martlets and two of Hurricanes.

Still looks better than the olive drab Spifire...