They’ve only just got rid of the Sicards and a low houred Rolba at Saints!

At least the S26 refueller in these shots is fairly classic!

Perhaps we should have a new thread on “Final flights into Duxford”, depicting airborne arrivals to the Museum over the years? 😎

I like the idea of a Duxford arrivals thread. There’s a good clip of the B29 arriving somewhere.

…by the way, i like Roobarbs idea of a “final flights” thread. Very nostalgic, not just for the aircraft but also for Duxford airfield as it once was.

Short memories here! Duxford IWM/DAS exhibit arrivals, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=111511
Footage of the B-29 and 52 arrivals included.

Another one covering the Javelin arrival, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108644

Edit, for some great pictures of how wild the airfield looked before the museums were established, check out this thread (particularly first pages) on AIX http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?900-Duxford

I can’t say that I’ve seen silver over black on British bombers, as mentioned the Washingtons when arrived were in their previous USAF wavey black and natural metal scheme.
The glossy black and light grey upper (inc wooden Mosquito) was the main scheme of the era.

I’m fascinated by your info though OEB, when was the Horsa retired and when was the concept of the assault glider dropped from British service?

That’s fantastic news Rich, does that mean it would have to remain one particular variant or another to do this, or it doesn’t matter?

Did you have all four running today?

I must admit that I was surprised how clean it was inside.

You’re welcome to the pictures, just click either on the pictures or the links underneath which will take you to the Flickr album, click on the picture again and you should have an option to open it to full size, do that and then right click and select ‘save picture as’.
I have uploaded the images at their maximum size/quality.
Let me know if you have problems saving them.

I think Pete, Simon and TeeJ have cleaerd this one up quite nicely!:)

You’re possibly right Pete, but the two 5s still look quite different to me.

Possibly but the five looks very different in shape and form to what looks like an eight, whichever way you look at it?

It would mkae more sense being a ’55’ though, if someone went to the lengths to get the address and number right I would think they would know that he passed away in 1982.