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J Boyle
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Years ago I was at the Garber facility and saw the Hurricane under restoration.
And though I’m sure folks here will disagree, I really don’t think a UK museum could have done any better.

Now that they’ve given the combat vet B-17D The Swoose (sole surviving early “small tail” Fortress) to the NMUSAF for restoration, I don’t have any complaints with the NASM.
I had complained for years that the B-17 should have been earlier in the restoration queue. It would have been nice to have had the fortress restored (before many obscure non-combat axis types) while more of the generation who designed, built and flew it were alive. And the fact that the museum doesn’t have a B-17 (arguably the most famous American aircraft of WWII) on display is nothing short of disgraceful.