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  • September 28, 2015 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #865819
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    B-17 42-38133, which is now carried on the AAM’s aircraft, was known as “Reluctant Dragon”. Although I’ve been unable to find a picture of the nose art. The original aircraft from 96th BG carried the codes AW-O and was lost over Berlin on 30 Nov 1944 with 3 crew killed and 6 POWs.

    I was at Duxford on Friday. It was brilliant to see the B-17 and B-24 outside together. Weather was ideal for photos.
    Well done to IWM for organising it!

    Not this one then…?

    http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/12017

    The actual aircraft doesn’t appear to have nose art or even a name…

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    Maybe there’s a hint of some nose art here…

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    September 26, 2015 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #867253
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    https://farm1.staticflickr.com/588/21745317021_f1c8ab46e1_b.jpg

    It’s like Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love crossed with that scene from Battle of Britain…

    September 26, 2015 at 3:19 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #867460
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    The B17 in DCW’s pictures doesn’t look right without any nose art, I can’t recall ever seeing a picture of a B17 flying during the war without any.

    Hendon’s B-17 is also sans nose art..

    September 26, 2015 at 10:26 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #867621
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    Looks like the sequel to ‘North by Northwest’ !

    Apocalypse Northwest…?

    September 24, 2015 at 6:12 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #869128
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    Shame the are hanging the P47. Always liked it on the ground with crew.

    Shame they are hanging any of them!! The Dak looked fantastic outside on the grass…

    September 15, 2015 at 11:46 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #880454
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    Thanks for the Hog info, hopefully someone at Dux for the flypast return will grab a few shots of the A10.
    Is it being suspended again?

    I’m pretty sure it will be suspended, as will the P-51 and P-47..

    September 11, 2015 at 8:40 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #885296
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    Where at Duxford is this today ??

    Probably under the M11

    September 10, 2015 at 7:48 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #885763
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    Anyone noticed that the B-25 has lost its fuselage gun packs? I actually quite like the colour scheme and nose art – it can’t have been that easy to do as I don’t believe it was done in-house. Needless to say that once it’s dangling from the rafters it won’t be that noticeable anyway.

    Re the Joseph Heller connection, wasn’t the idea to focus on the people behind the aircraft schemes?? Sounds a bit dubious, but there you go…

    As for the U-2, it arrived at Duxford in June 1992 and was originally white!!

    August 26, 2015 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #900187
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    I loved the old colour scheme on the B25 🙁 Then new one is so drab…

    THe F15 does indeed look fantastic, will it be having its undercarriage retracted?

    Yes, Olive Drab!! I think it looks great, especially with the red on the cowlings.

    There was a photo a few pages back of the F-15 jacked up with the gear retracted….

    August 25, 2015 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #901006
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    So the F-15 is going directly above the B-52 pointing towards the back?!!

    August 24, 2015 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #902282
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    Make the most of the F-15 before it spends the next 20 years dangling from the rafters. I notice they’ve added the suspension points to the P-47 as well.

    August 23, 2015 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #904305
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    Sally B just flew low over Reading, awesome sight and sound..

    August 14, 2015 at 7:48 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #913410
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    In Hangar 5, the F-15 was noted wheels up:

    Let the dangling commence!

    July 13, 2015 at 7:42 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #861565
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    The airframe restoration has been on hold for the best part of a decade now

    If the correct engines cannot be obtained then surely some museum somewhere would welcome a static Beau?

    July 12, 2015 at 11:55 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #863331
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    One such point being his waffle about a pilot (French) who flew a P-38

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery? He crashed into a vineyard at La Marsa in August 1943 as old leg injuries prevented him from applying full force to the brakes. ‘USAAF Colonel Harold Willis … was furious to learn that the Frenchman, 43, is 13 years older than the upper age limit for P-38 pilots’.

    He wrote the novels Night Flight and Flight to Arras, apparently…

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