They have a facebook page which seems to be th ebest source of information on them. This link may or may not work, but if you search ‘Freeman Field Recovery Team’ on FB you should find it:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freeman-Field-Recovery-Team/100776559984890?fref=ts

A Typhoon leg that they found, and some other bits

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One of the down sides of websites blogs and social media is a tendancy to re-use poor quality material which is then recycled onto another site, and so on.
The original of the Tomahawk is in the IWM Collection together with 1373 other WW2 colour images, but they don’t seem to surface on facebook or blogs in their original form, and it’s probably for the better if most of them stay on the IWM collections pages.

THE DESERT AIR FORCE, 1943. © IWM (TR 824)IWM Non Commercial Licence

Although some of my favourite colour images lurk in other collections:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/CorexDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/7/b/4/c/NYC35591.jpg

Remenants of the actual WW2 Heinkel still exist! :http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/grotli.html

The replica is a pretty convincing prop:

He-111 by Sigurd R, on Flickr

The trailer shows it to good advantage:

And some stills from the film:Still from “Into the White” – Shot during coordination of the burn by Soren_Haraldsted, on Flickr

SFX – Actor Rupert Grint on set of “Into the White” by Soren_Haraldsted, on Flickr

Excellent photos of an excellent museum and stiring memories of my visit a few years back which conicided with the Bodø airshow.

The Fw190 was present but dismantled when I visited, and the F-5 was aircraft 563 witout any tiger stripes. Don’t recall seeing the Lynx on dispay either. Good to see changes and indeed progress, and I’d highly recommend anyone visiting Norway to make the trek and visit the Bodø Museum, and also the Forsvarets flysamling at Gardermoen. Beautiful country too!

Regards the Gladiator( from the museums website): http://luftfartsmuseum.no/fly/gloster-gladiator-ii-2/

The Museum’s Gloster Gladiator belonged to 263 Squadron of the RAF. It was flown from the aircraft carrier HMS “Glorious” to an air strip on lake Lesjaskogsvann on April 24, 1940. The following day, German bombers attacked several times and 13 of the 18 aircraft there were destroyed or damaged on the ice.

Just a thought.

Any possibility of the aircraft belonging to the ASWDU,who flew Lancasters at Ballykelly?
With the Joint Anti-Submarine School in Derry, possibly their could have been some air experience offered to the navy or some form of exchange.

Another thing struck me. I’ve read that Maritime Reconnaissance crews didn’t wear parachutes, as it wasn’t much use parachuting from an aircraft over open sea, when the dingy was with teh aircraft. So better to ditch. All the men in the photo have the observer type parachute harness and clip on chute. They don’t appear to have any type of flying helmets or headsets

Just posing for a photo opportunity?

Always bigger in the States!
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C-17 Fuselage Arrives at Fort Lee by Fort Lee Traveller, on Flickr

Scanned from ‘Shorts Aircraft’ by Mike Hooks

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