How about this theory:
The first 3 photos are a model, perhaps 1:48 or 1:32. The close up is just that, a much larger scale piece of the fuselage. The cockpit interior is baffling, it looks too realistic. Maybe it’s from another, genuine P-40?
Hi
user name is actually AWOT, I tried googling it and got …AWOT = A Waste Of Time
cheers
Jerry
Maybe that’s the clue, he’s wasting our time with an elaborate hoax? I can believe that more than I can believe the authenticity of the photos.
Is there oil and gas in the Sahara? And what the hell does ‘awot awot’ mean!?
The first 3 photos do look like they’re straight out of Thunderbirds…
Maybe if they dig around they’ll find 19 more…
Would be surprised if it had, as in 1944 Duxford was all grass with PSP runway.. and not exactly a ‘big’ airfield compared to some. So would they risk it with such a valuable aeroplane?
B-17s definitely landed at Duxford during the war, but obviously they are a tad different to B-29s.
Includes an RAF AEC 0854 Matador Fuel Bowser and an RAF Thornycroft Amazon Crane 6×4. Plus there are eleven aero engines.
But no complete aircraft…
Fiona Banner’s ‘Harrier and Jaguar’ was not exactly abound with artistic merit but at least the airframes were in one piece!
Could it perhaps be something to cover a meteorological instrument on a ground installation?
otherwise known as a Stevenson screen
Update, if it was then it would be painted white
How complete is the Avenger internally?
I would guess it’s fairly complete, the turret had to be acquired separately as it was removed for the firebombing. The bomb bay doors were missing and had to be fabricated. There’s some good info in Roger Freeman’s book on the AAM.
How about this beauty?
And, no I am not the seller…
Seems ridiculous hanging it from the roof! If it stays there I reckon they should retract the undercarriage and have it dropping a dummy torpedo, complete with a mannequin of Bush in the cockpit…
Which a/c are going, and where? What is the logic in disposing of the “JU52” and the Avenger? There is little chance of a genuine JU52 joining the collection?
a lot of work would have gone into restoring them.
The Avenger certainly needed a lot of work, it was rebuilt from a crashed firebomber conversion!
The landing was a bit wobbly, though I guess it would be with a whopping great shuttle strapped to the top…
The aircraft dispersal pen that you mention and show is indeed still there.. for on sunday i took the dog for a walk and wandered over to it. The pill box that is shown in front of it has gone, but the entrance to the right of the pill box leads into the underground room, and although it was dark there is still a fairly hefty metal door at the entrance with two swing over latches still in situ. On turning right you walk out onto the airfield side and onto what would have been the concrete dispersal, and now used for storing sugar beet etc.
There were several of these dispersals still around into the seventies but this is the only one left, and is now owned by the landowner of the surrounding fields. It is now basically the last remnant of the airfield on the southern side, at the eastern end is a flat roof building that was once close to the original runway threshold before the M11 was built.
There’s another fighter pen behind the American Air Museum. There are some photos in Roger Freeman’s Mighty Eighth in Colour showing JD Landers’ Mustang in it
No bidders as yet… I mean, he could at least offer free postage!