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  • December 29, 2006 at 8:15 pm in reply to: P-47 Thunderbolt Crash – Leicestershire, U.K. #1258484
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    The Kirby Muxloe aircraft were 41-6348 and 41-6213 both pilots killed. Ferrying from Speke.

    The Dovedale Road P-47 was 41-6178 of 495th FTG. Pilot Lt Herbert C Belford killed.

    Doesn’t seem to be any record of the Shepshed fatality, assuming the basic details are correct.

    December 29, 2006 at 3:59 pm in reply to: P-47 Thunderbolt Crash – Leicestershire, U.K. #1258701
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    Finally managed to find the info on this one. I believe it was 41-6234 of 495th FTG which force-landed “near Loughborough” on 9/1/44 after engine failure. Pilot was Luther J Abel, an instructor who was killed some time later in a P-38 crash at Atcham. If the pilot was killed, maybe there was another P-47 accident in the area? Another fairly local 495th crash involved 41-6251 at Arbury Park, Nuneaton on 15/4/44. Lt James F Gerrits lost control and baled out successfully.

    December 25, 2006 at 6:48 pm in reply to: P-47 Thunderbolt Crash – Leicestershire, U.K. #1261614
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    This was from the 495th FTG at Atcham. Don’t have the info to hand but will post it asap, unless someone else does first!

    December 20, 2006 at 10:27 pm in reply to: Classic Aviation Literature #1265173
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    Abebooks.com have several copies of A Rabbit in the Air listed, including an author signed one at £150! I paid 50p for mine about 15 years ago but unsigned of course.

    December 18, 2006 at 10:20 am in reply to: B-26 Crash Parts I/D #1268570
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    Good point Moggy, thanks. Might just try that.

    December 18, 2006 at 12:41 am in reply to: B-26 Crash Parts I/D #1268611
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    No apologies for thread creep required! Did we ever know the identities of the B-17 and B-26?

    December 17, 2006 at 11:35 am in reply to: B-26 Crash Parts I/D #1269405
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    Thanks for the comments everyone. For Colin, I’ll resize the photo as soon as I get a chance as am off to work soon. Re the B-26 rear fuselage at Earls Colne, was this not the one that was discovered in a scrapyard in Warrington, Lancs in the 1970s? Along with lots of other goodies, it came from nearby Burtonwood. It was sticking out of a mountain of industrial scrap, along with a B-17 nose adorned with many bomb symbols. I remember crawling into the B-26, assuming it was part of the B-17 and then realising that it was much too small. The B-17 nose went to Duxford and I believe it was scrapped. It is to be hoped that the B-26 section is preserved as, in my opinion, these relics are major pieces of original aviation history.

    December 8, 2006 at 11:25 am in reply to: The 'Whispering Death' myth. #1279887
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    Supposedly, the Viet Cong called the Huey helicopter the Muttering Death. A very apt description if you have ever heard one approaching.

    November 15, 2006 at 11:42 am in reply to: Which MU? #1307031
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    I believe this was No 65 MU, Blaby, Leics.

    November 3, 2006 at 4:33 pm in reply to: MRES information #1321984
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    Stuart, there is a current thread on the US Army Air Forces Forum about MARIO – the Missing Aircraft Research Investigation Office. This was the equivalent of our MRES and probably there was a lot of overlap. If you know all about this, forget what I have written!

    November 2, 2006 at 9:00 am in reply to: Slingsby Grasshopper #1323960
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    I apologise for a slight thread creep but I am told by a Lithuanian that, in his country, children from the age of nine are allowed to fly/hop the local equivalent of the Grasshopper! Definitely an air-minded country with some world-class aerobatic pilots. Imagine the health and safety furore in the UK!

    September 25, 2006 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Jeff Hawke is not dead!! #1280147
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    Did he have any plumbing experience? ‘cos he could be over here by now.

    September 20, 2006 at 10:04 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1285359
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    I quote from Jane’s 1945 – “The structure of the flying bomb was of the simplest. Except for the light metal nose cone enclosing the magnetic compass, it was entirely of welded steel sheet.”

    September 18, 2006 at 11:09 am in reply to: Percival Proctor I pilot notes… #1289245
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    Will try again with pilots notes!

    September 18, 2006 at 11:05 am in reply to: Percival Proctor I pilot notes… #1289259
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    Attached are the summary RAF Ferry Pilots/ATA for the Proctor which may be of use.

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