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  • in reply to: Ormond Haydon-Baillie #1431654
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    OHB camo:

    Thanks for straightening me out on the I-BILL colours. OHB had planned to have the Mustang painted prior to picking it up as I remember laughing with him about the irony of having the “Germans” do the best job of camoing it in USAAF colours. There was a young man who planned to accompany OHB to Germany in the T33. Does anyone know if that happened or what became of the passenger? I’m assuming that I-BILL was a single seater, right?

    in reply to: Ormond Haydon-Baillie #1433266
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    OHB and T33

    Back in June/77, I spent a week at Duxford crawling all over some of the planes in Ormond’s collection. I was in the UK on a holiday and was introduced to Ormond by a bank manager at the Royal in Berkeley Sq. He picked me up in his DB5, blue if I remember rightly, took me to Duxford and introduced me to his squad of “restorers”. He was killed within the next week, after I was back home. It seems to me that he was flying to Germany where he was picking up his newly camouflaged Mustang, I-BILL. I took lots of pictures of the T33 and various other “stuff” hanging around Duxford. I sent some pic’s of Ormond to the Royal Bank after the crash to forward, as they were the most recent. Great and sad memory!

    in reply to: knit picking: #1610905
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    Are we talking about the Armstrong Sidd Cheetahs? This must be a Mk 1, probably posted in Alberta somewhere near the beginning of the BC pilot training program.

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