I’m pretty sure those photos of a badly damaged B17 are of one that landed in North Africa following a collision, though I can’t recall the details. They’re certainly not Ye Olde Pub.

“Kook-aid” in MFowler’s post above seems a terribly apt typo to describe TIGHAR.

As we’ve mentioned the Texan II, anyone else think it sounds even more like a Hoover than the Tucano did?

As for the original Texan, now that was a Real Aeroplane NoiseTM.

Must scan that Dornier pic, JB! Haven’t forgotten,  just had an outbreak of Real Life.

It’s going to take some getting out of there. Will be very interesting to see how it gets done, it may not be Spitfire money but I can’t imagine a Stearman will be left in the weeds.

Yikes, he’s a lucky man to walk away from that!

If he deliberately put it into the trees, Dick Grace would have been very proud of  him. 

Two two-seater Spitfires over Stanton St John, Oxfordshire.