Another photo has come to light from the Duxford event on 24-8-75, showing the whole group of aircraft. Sally B was not flown due to lack of crew, and the P-51 was the static ‘Big Beautiful Doll’.
Thanks to Steve Carter for providing the picture, which is a scan of a print of a slide, hence the poor quality. Its origin is uncertain, but may be another of Mark Miller’s photos.
Cor what a line up, like 2008 Legend’s heavy’s line up i dought we will ever see anything like that again here in the UK 🙁
Duxford Sunday 17th March:
I was lucky enough to catch today’s public preview of the new ‘Historic Duxford’ exhibition. The old Watch Office building in front of Hangar 3 has been transformed into new exhibition space. Together with a Heritage Trail featuring significant points around the airfield, the story of Duxford as a military station between 1918 and 1961 is related, both with traditional displays of historic objects, and cutting edge audio-visual presentations designed to appeal to all ages.
Today was a one-off preview, the exhibit will open on March 28th, just before the Easter weekend. Highlights to look for include a re-creation of the Watch Office from the late 30s, plenty of wonderful details:
Personal stories are featured strongly, and my eye kept going back to the cases containing (amongst other items), George ‘Grumpy’ Unwin’s medals, Douglas Bader’s uniform and a 78th FG flight jacket belonging to Lawrence Casey. Plus, you can try on RAF uniforms and learn to salute!
There is a lot of interesting background on the IWM ‘Historic Duxford’ blog at:
Now ive got a job am planning to go Good Friday so looking forward to having a good look round 😀
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