Wonderful photos as usual. I noticed the R.R. Hucknall runway in the background of Steve’s Chipmunk shots. Another piece of history gone.

What about the tower???

She is big and makes for a very strange silhouette.
One has to say she is not the prettiest of ships!
But then again function over form is what her designers had in mind. Well one would hope that to be the case.

The badge on the fuselage was copied directly from an original that was an original B of B film vinyl created by Alan Tomkins in 1968

And who paid a visit to Duxford last Sunday.
He has a very good book out now about many of the films he has been involved in called “Stars and Wars”. It’s a great title as he has been involved in Star Wars and many war films including BofB, A Bridge too far, Band of Brothers Memphis Belle etc etc. Very much worth a read!
http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/stars-and-wars-hb.html

I am not sure that the word “repair” is entirely appropriate. When I saw the aircraft after it had been tidied up from the accident, a main wing spar had been sawn off a short distance outboard from the engine, and the prop shaft on that engine seemed to have broken off. As a previous post says “rebuilt for static display” is a good description.

I cannot remember the name of the chap who did the work now, but it was done in hangar 5 by the east doors, with the wing repair being very exacting and the new part of wing that was constructed, was even ‘spliced’ onto the existing. I seem to remember him telling me that it was not quite spliced enough to be the same as that prescribed in the battle damage repair manual, but it wasn’t far off. I seem to remember many, many precisely placed brass screws being used to fix the skin to the wing spar structures.

IWM Duxford were throwing artifacts into landfill on the north side as late as the late-80s. Gunsights, engine parts, all sorts of stuff. And then there is the sad story of the disappearing Hermes tailfin.

I’m sure some of the museums P-47 rebuild bent/scrapped bits went into that hole too.

But…. I suppose it had to have an American in it somewhere. I believe they are using the Britannia :highly_amused: as the aircraft Princess Elizabeth returned from Kenya in.
Brian

They’ve also certainly got a rather large tent with many rails of period clothing for all the actors and extras and large portable telescopic light units have sprung up everywhere, just as quick as wind farms seem to do these days.

I’ve always liked the look of the aeroplane, I was very happy to see it when it was at Hendon.
Powerplants aside, isn’t it WWII-level technology or at least aerodynamically with it’s orthodox construction (something that can’t be said of the Victor, Vulcan, B-47 or B-52)?

It was interesting reading this re-juvenated thread and I was interested in the all-electric aspect. Having seen mention of aircraft such as the B-29 being mentioned, I thought it worth mentioning that actually this concept had certainly already existed in the 1930’s, as the B-17 was essentially an all electric aeroplane, which first flew in 1935.

It is also a resource for those visiting Duxford, on museum days, and on airshow days. As such, sustenance is an important part.

Worse is to come for some………they’ve even stopped selling baked beans!!! How mad is that???
Wot, no sausage chips and beans?
I have it ‘on authority’, that someone ‘close to the coal face’ intends to do their best to get some of the decisions reversed, so lets give them a chance and see if they are good to their word and able to so.

Lovely Victor pic DCW