This picture was taken by ( & © ) Tony Breese at Odiham in Sept 1961
| The 1970 season was flown using the all new T5 Jet provost. These were not fitted with wing tip tanks. Some of the aircraft were painted with a new logo on the Engine Air intake & on the tailfin, just above the aircrafts number. If you expand the following picture you can see the right hand 2 aircraft clearly showing these logos. |
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The new logo was the White Rose of Yorkshire, with swords crossed behind it & 4 Jet Provosts shown inside the rose.
Here's a picture of a patch the pilots were issued with. The air intake logo did not have the team name in it. A simplified picture of this paint scheme is shown at the very top of this page on the right. |
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The 1972 aircraft had a large vertical yellow sword on the rudder.
The air intake no longer carried a logo.
This picture was taken at Woodford in 1972 by Adrian Balch. |
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However this wasn't the only change, the underside of the fuselage was also painted up with a
Large sword, almost the entire length of the fuselage & a large white "Blades Rose" between the wings
The colour photo is from Peter Nicholson. The B/W photo is from an unknown source. |
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For 1973 the swords & rose were removed. The upper half of the fuselage was painted blue and the wingtips painted red.
The teams name "Linton Blades" was written in the white stripe just below the cockpit.
This colour scheme was on the cover of the "Scale Aircraft Modelling" magazine from April 1995 (Vol 17 Number 2) .
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You can clearly see the teams name painted on the fuselage in ths scan, courtesy of Mike Fox.
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