Hi nightdriver….image googling C-46 eiffel 1945 brings a result which with a little enhancement reads as 477551 (44-77551)
This exhibition was much photographed…several of the aircraft were painted to represent other examples with unusual combat history
B-24 Witchcraft (#2 a replica)
The real Witchcraft I in England before its tour of the USA
B-26 Je Reviens
Some feedback on the 727 piece….worth linking to the newsreel of the World Airways evacuation flight from a Da Nang taxiway with grenade and gunfire damage and CEO Ed Daly personally clearing those under tail rear stairs…
Bruce Dunning/CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/dunnings-frantic-flight/
or embedded in
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/03/1296651/-A-Fond-Farewell-to-World-Airways-looted-by-Dan-Quayle .
The 727s rear stairs under the tail entered American Folklore with the story of Dan ‘DB’ Cooper who hijacked a NorthWest 727 in 1971 then parachuted into history from the tail with $200,000 ransom money in $20 bills some of which was found in a riverbed years later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Pan Am crewed Ariana Afghan 727 which crashed short of Gatwick winter 1968/1969
TAP and Olympic 727s landing Heathrow RWY05R, 1971
They were smoky and Wardair, Sterling and other non-scheds flew them transatlantic
They followed the Caravelle at Air France
Alitalia first Boeing type mid-70s , threshold RWY10R LHR
The reference to the RR Spey being considered for the 727 at the project stage is most interesting.
, possibly reads across to the new Aeroplane DH Trident special?
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