This is the black Gripen, in the RSwAF Linköping museum.

Have you read “Hitler – A Study in Tyranny” by Alan Bullock? This provides an excellent foundation for understanding the man and his obsessions, with many excerpts from his speeches. It was only after reading this that I began to understand the background of the 2nd World War, and its counterpart I think is the 5 volumes of “The Second World War” by Winston Churchill. Both are in my small but carefully selected library.

Funny you should mention those . . .
(Sorry for the serious thread creep, but Udvar-Hazy is such a fantastic place!)

From what I have read here in Swedish news media there will be no C-17 purchase.

Lincoln RE376 conversion

From page 35 of “Avro Lincoln – Warpaint Series no. 34”
Caption:
“Lincoln RE376 rebuilt as Peruvian meat freighter ZP-CBR-97 in 1958-59. It never flew in this form.”
I must have seen this aircraft while cycling with my mates to plane-spot at Tollerton and/or Langar, but don’t remember it!

Those series have recently been shown on Swedish TV – I always wondered where he found the time to repair animals, any one of those “xxx is born” would have taken me years to do as a full-time job! Presumably he had quite a lot of assistance from unseen helpers.

From page 35 of “Test Pilots” by the late Don Middleton:
“The Horsley, named after Harry Hawker’s old home, Horsley Towers, was under test (1925); a day-bomber/torpedo carrier, it gave good service in the RAF. George (Bulman) was fully responsible for the Mark II Horsley, including the modifications to J8607 in preparation for a non-stop flight from Cranwell to India. The pilot was to be Flt Lt C. R. Carr, later Air Marshal Sir Roderick, with Flt Lt L. E. M. Gillman as his navigator. The aeroplane was so grossly overloaded that the tyres burst while it stood awaiting its crew at Cranwell. After 34 1/2 hours in the air they were forced down at Jask on the Persian Gulf 3,420 miles away. Two hours later their unofficial record was beaten by Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris.”