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  • April 14, 2009 at 6:28 pm in reply to: XS458 25th April High Speed Runs #1206166
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    PM sent 🙂

    November 7, 2007 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Memphis Belle film B-17 crash #1289184
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    I understood that the B-17 remains went to a salvage yard, and I know that “parts” were later offered for sale as “movie memorabilia” in Flight International. ( Including the prop blades ? )

    Around 5 years ago I was told of a Channel 4 TV documentary on the restoration of a former factory mill ( near the former Irvin WW2 factory ? ) It was stated that the rear section of a B-17 that crashed during the making of the movie had been housed there.

    All very sketchy.

    But I’ve always wondered what happened to the last worldly remains of this particular Flying Fortress ……

    May 30, 2007 at 10:01 pm in reply to: So what preserved aircraft have you flown in? #1290338
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    I resisted the temptation to post until I read Bomberboys B-17 list …..

    B-17G ~ Sentimental Journey ( just once ! )
    B-17G ~ Nine-O-Nine ( twice )
    B-17G ~ Yankee Lady ( three times times ~ two of these 3 hours x country )
    B-17G ~ Aluminium Overcast ( twice )
    B-17G ~ Fuddy Duddy ( three times )
    B-17G ~ Thunderbird ( once ~ x country )

    plus ……..

    B-24J ~ Once when painted as The Dragon and twice while painted as Witchcraft
    B-25J ~ Miss Mitchell
    B-25D ~ Yankee Warrior
    B-25J ~ Tondelayo

    Lancaster ~ Mynarski Memorial

    P-51D Mustang ~ Ole Red Nose ~ CAF Dixie Wing ( B-17 and P-51 on the same day )

    With the exception of Fuddy Duddy ~ YOU can do the same !
    All of the above are selling rides to the public in 2007 ~ including for the first time ever the Lone Star Flight Museums B-17 Thunderbird 🙂

    September 12, 2006 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Heads up "The War Lover" BBC2 Tues 1.30pm #1296743
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    According to Scott Thompsons masterwork on B-17 post-WW2 histories ( The Final Cut ) ~ the belly landing scene was indeed borrowed from 12 O’clock High.

    The 3 B-17’s used in the War Lover were painted so that existing footage could be used in the new motion picture.

    Of the 3 aircraft ~ 2 were scrapped at Manston after filming ~ cheaper than either flying then out of the UK or paying the import duty to leave them behind.

    The third airframe went back to the USA to undertake a promotional tour for the movie ~ 44-83563 is today better known as Fuddy Duddy.

    In this guise ~ she has spent the past 2 summers out on tour selling rides with the EAA before going to here new owner in California where she is currently “resting” ~ still in airworthy condition.

    August 12, 2006 at 8:21 pm in reply to: Could this be the end of flying at Duxford? #1255597
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    I found this on the planning site ~ relating to Cambridge Airport ~
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    The Annex to Department for Transport (DfT) Circular 1/2002, Control of Development in Airport Public Safety Zones requires such zones to be safeguarded and identified in Development Plans. DfT has advised that Public Safety Zones have been established for Cambridge Airport. One of these falls within South Cambridgeshire. The Circular advises that within this Zone development should be restricted in order to minimise the number of people on the ground at risk of death or injury in the event of an aircraft crash on take-off or landing. There are safety benefits from preventing any new development or change of use which would result in a significant increase in the numbers of people within such zones except for uses such as long stay surface car parking, allotments and public open space which is of low intensity use.
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    The land at Duxford must be recognised in a similar fashion ~ as an Airport Public Saftey Zone !

    Anyone out there know who to go about making this happen with the Dept of Transport ??

    Blue Skies ~ Peter

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