Very sad news indeed.

… it will probably be retored to fly and end up in a flying accident in the UK, like the blenheim,or the last flying mosquito.
In my opinion there is here is so little of anything of any historical value,and so much has already been exported.
cheers
Jerry

I can understand your feelings regards this example’s Canadian importance and so on, but to suggest that it would almost certainly crash if it’s restored to fly again is a tad pessimistic to say the least. Airworthy historic aircraft are not ‘crashes waiting to happen’, yes there have been accidents but there are many warbirds that have been flying for decades without a hitch.

The wing damage looks as though it has been caused by something (flak?) puncturing it from below, rather than being caused by the ‘410. I’d have thought a round from a BK5 would also cause much greater damage, although perhaps the round has passed through without detonating. The ‘H in a sqaure’ marking on the wing suggests the B17 was from the 388th BG.

A remarkable picture in many ways…

From my image in post 6, taken at London Airport, as we knew it then, circa 1960, in storage for the Nash Collection, the livery is Brown/Green/Black.

Why is this and shouldn’t it be silver? Was it painted for a film?

Mark

I’ve seen pictures showing MF628 in camouflage at Biggin Hill around the same time, so perhaps it was repainted while it was displayed there?

Aha! Thanks John, that’s the one I was thinking of.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=32516&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1109190424

12jaguar I think you mean the fuselage in the Museum Deelen in Holland. Used as a pigsty.

Well I never knew about that one, thanks for putting the picture up! As impressive as that is, the section I’m thinking of is about twice the length and on outdoor display in a field behind a small museum somewhere in France.

I thought it was a great film when I saw in 1949, but I was only 8! Saw it again when I was a lot older on the ‘box’ not so impressed. But I did observe a certain Rock Hudson playing a bit part, he must have impressed the USAF because he later played a SAC wing commander in ‘A Gathering of eagles’ starring B-52’s.in 1963:diablo:

I too was blown away when I first saw Fighter Squadron when I was about the same age. The aerial and airfield sequences are great, although the plot and some of the acting leaves alot to be desired! My grumble in the above link is the cheesy promotional style rather than the film itself. 🙂

As for the Patton film, weren’t the Mustangs dressed as Messerschmitts and the Messerschmitts dressed as Mustangs??