Slainte! The planes of 2 Irishmen..

Paddy · 17 March 2006, 08:55 AM

Here's to two of my favorite Aces, who are of Irish descent, along with a question about the aeroplanes that they flew:

WJC Kennedy Cochran-Patrick - I am building a Strutter and would like to represent A1912 of 70 Sqn. Was she painted PC10 on the top deck, wing and tail upper surfaces with CDL fuselage sides and undersurfaces, or was the fuselage PC10? Was the ser.no. marked on the fuselage or the empennage, or both? If PC10, was the ser.no. marked in the white bar / box?

Tom Falcon Hazell - Someday, we will have good 1/72 models of the Nieuport 17 and hopefully all the others. When we do, I intend to build a model of B1649 and B3455. I assume that B1649 was a Nie 17, but was B3455 also, or a Nie 23 or Nie 24?

I shall drink a toast to these two this evening, and to you for your help as well. Slainte!