Make it a Flyer! Make it a Flyer! Make it a Flyer!!! Enough museum pieces, they need a FLYING P-47 downunder!!

Mark

How about: they need flying P-47s downunder!!!! (note the plural)

Cees

Quote:Right. Didn’t see that too clear on the b/w picture. But what about the nose? Looks strange to me Unquote

Reason for this is that the airframe is complete apart from the prop and spinner. For years it had been looking a bit odd, but recently (Dave?) it has been replaced with a better looking dummy or original unit.

This shows that if an incorrect spinner is fitted, the whole look of an aircraft is changed (remember the Hurricane).

Cees

The majority of the photographs I’ve seen show just the regular Bomber Command camouflage. They were mostly used on night operations, although Halifaxes (couldn’t resist) were also used for strafing missions at low altitude in the desert during daylight. Could have been quite a sight. 😀

Achtung, Halifax!!!!! 😮 😮

HTH

Cees

I will be in London from December 30th till January 2nd and if all goes well I will be meeting Mr Harry Fraser Mitchell at the IWM Lambeth where he will hand me a cardboard tube with lots of Halifax drawings (I hope) in front of the cockpit section of PN323. Would make a nice spy plot for a film, remember the Ultravox video they did for Vienna?. 😀

Now where is me raincoat

Cheers

Cees

57953 C 37 = 57 meaning Halifax, 953 = drawingnumber, C = fuselage structure, 37 = portside.

The stamp could be an inspectors stamp and being one personally used but not generally useful to determine the factory it was built. If you find a stamp with the letters EEP (meaning English Electric at Preston) then you know who built it.

Any more information on that wreck?

Hope this helps

Cheers

Cees

Just to put one thing right. AFAIK the photographs of the Dora-wreckage are not showing the restoration project of Mr Lacey.

These photographs are the same as the ones published in the quarterly of Belgium based recovery group BAHAAT and which I receive two days ago, and this was about their recent recovery of the aircraft. The remains are to be re-assembled and put on display in their museum during the summer of 2005.

Cheers

Cees

Chris,

Never wanted to buy G-FIRE back from the US?

. Just a thought :rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees