A few more pictures from today at DX.

DX 4/4/13- With temperatures just above freezing and a wind chill factor feeling like 10 degrees below that it was not a day to hang about – noted during a 5 minute visit late morning —

I see the Catalina has one of it’s props feathered, did it arrive on one engine?

Just about ! -Here she is arriving (apologies for first picture quality)

DX 21/3/13. Nothing much to report today. SNAFU was out for further engine runs.

Whilst some maintenance to the doors on hanger 4 exposed the Phantom and Javelin .

Great shots there in post 647. Makes you wonder what other rare photo’s are lurking around that haven’t seen the light of day since they were taken.

Thanks for sharing them.

Undoubtedly – No guesses about these 2 from 1989 ??

Just oil drums and chain/rope – CAA would not approve now!

Diamond Lil visit was 1992 if I recall – heavily delayed en-route with engine issues. The plan was to base at Norwich for a while, then at Duxford for a couple of weeks. In the end, I saw her at IAT but I don’t recall her spending very much time at Dux at all.

I may be wrong but I don’t think ‘Diamond Lil’ ever made it to DX because of the delays caused by her continued engine problems whilst at Biggin Hill.

Back to N94459 here are 2 pictures taken at Duxford on 2/11/73 just a couple of days after her arrival.

Another request from the guys in H2 for pictures of the OFMC operated P.51s G-HAEC and N167F in 1997 with D Day stripes. Presumably for a film but which one ??

according to this

“On 25th August 1975 KH401 now “Delectable Doris” was given a rousing send-off from Duxford; being escorted to Stansted, its first stop, by a Hurricane, 2 Spitfires and a Lancaster of the “Battle of Britain” Flight. From Stansted the Liberator flew to Prestwick where it suffered an undercarriage collapse which was duly repaired and then on its way via Keflavik in Iceland to the U.S.A.”

Thats exactly the details we were looking for to explain the BBMF presence at DX on an apparent non airshow day.