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Whats all the scaffolding under the Bolingbrooke? Is it being restored?

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Thanks for the Fw190 info Ant. Wish I’d seen that.

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>Whats the plane in British colours?
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Blenheim. Or Bolingbroke, if I’m being pedantic.

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Whats the plane in British colours?

The FW190 restoration was mentioned on Arcos website but I cant find it. So this will have to do.

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Hi Steve,
The IWM’s Fw190 was in for a check over and a respray,the work being done by ARCO if I remember rightly.
The Mossie in the picture is NF.Mk.30 MB24/RK952.I think the nose has had a section of skin cutaway and replaced by perspex to give the public a view into the nose,which could explain why it looks a bit odd.RK952 never actually served with the RAF,being sent straight into storage from the Leavesden factory in May 1945.She was the last Mosquito to be flown by the Belgian Air Force,being struck off charge in 1956.All other Belgian Mossies had been grounded and struck off the year before.

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Does anybody have any close up shots of the Battle , I saw this airframe many times when she was at Strathallan – I would have loved to see her fly !!.

Alastair

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>The Fw190 that is now hanging
>at Lambeth was also in the hangar at the same time.

Really? I’ve got (admittedly vague) recollections of seeing the FW190 hanging from the ceiling at Lambeth when I last visited as a kid in the seventies. Was she at Duxford for a refurb?

Also, while we’re talking of Lambeth, there’s something else which has been troubling me for some time, and I’m hoping someone here can answer a burning question.

As you walk into the main hall at Lambeth, the Mosquito used to be mounted up against the opposite wall, but I’m sure she was pointing left to right as you looked at her, which would have meant that the port outer wing must have been removed. But when I look at the Mosquito wing in the TFC hangar, it’s the starboard outer section which is missing, while the whole of the port wing is still in one piece.

Is the TFC wing really the one from that aircraft (in which case time has dulled my memory a bit too much), or is this a different wing?

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 05-11-02 AT 11:46 AM (GMT)]I remember the Fairy Battle sitting in the corner of the TFC hangar when Mum and Dad were doing the fabric on the TFC (now HAC) Hurricane in 1988. The Fw190 that is now hanging at Lambeth was also in the hangar at the same time. It’s a shame that neither of these are still at Duxford.

Glenn

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Is the Fairy Battle at the bottom of the picture the one that used to be in Hangar 2 at Duxford during the late 80’s?

Glenn

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It is a Mosquito with a non standard nose as used by the BAF.

BW Roger

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Nice photo – anybody with an idea what the twin engined aircraft is second from the front, immediately above the Battle? The cockpit looks like a Mossie, but the nose and engines are wrong.

Regards

Wombat