Now that is beautiful !!!

This is a great thread, your dedication to the beautiful old Beau is fantastic, I do hope all your ambitions for her come good, it would be a spectacular and worthwhile achievement. I wish we could overcome the problems we are up against getting our Beau airworthy in the UK, it’s such an important type that needs to be put back in the spotlight.

Looks like a bird strike victim !!

Yes it is, shot down 25th October near Capel in Kent.

Great camo scheme.

This 109 has got that Hans Marseille connection to, what airworthy warbirds today have ‘ace’ connections? Can think of BBMF Spit IIa P7350 and Ludwig Martel, TFC’s Hellcat and Alex Vraciu.

The traffic was indeed horrendous much worse than the 50th anniversary flypasts last year. A fantastic sight though, we are so lucky in this country to have such a rich aviation history, I hope the wave of interest shown during the Mynarski Lancaster’s visit ( I refuse to call her ‘Vera’) will be carried forward by the public to the wider historic aviation scene.