Lovely sight! Very spirited displays…

Cheers for the reply David. Yes, we’re considering what wrecks are out there, and what else we might be able to get hold of, either ourselves our via the FAAM of course. I stress that it’s very early days yet, and the FAAM do already have a considerable amount of Barracuda, but as we’d like this to be a Barracuda built solely from original parts, the more we have to start with the better!

Hi everyone- just reviving this old thread with a bit of a request. As many of you may know, we mad lot at The Bluebird Project are going to have a crack at resurrecting DP872 for the FAAM. While they obviously have their own archives which we may dip into, we’d like to make a general appeal now for anyone who has any Barracuda reference material to share to get in touch- we’re looking for good reference photos, footage, parts, anything really that may help.

We’ll also be on the look out for any interested volunteers- if you’re based in or willing to travel regularly to the North East, and would like to help out with bringing the type back to life, we’d love to hear from you. We’re gearing up gradually at the moment- we still have a good while to go on Bluebird after all- but we’re also already doing some Barra work; we’ve already started on it’s elevators- and we’ll shortly be setting up a dedicated unit as our Barra workshop too.

If you can help with anything, anything at all, please PM me.

Thanks!

Thanks for those- she looks great now!

There’s a few more pictures up on the BBMF facebook page, too. The fresh black around the squadron codes kinda shows a bit, but this fan is still delighted to see the surprise change of scheme. 🙂

I personally would like to see a repaint in the colours of one of the many unsung crews who only lasted a few, or even only one mission. This is after all a Memorial Flight and there is too much emphasis on Lancs which achieved high mission numbers.

As I’ve said before, I think it doesn’t always need to be a centenarian Lanc, and this fab new scheme is certainly a departure from that quite long-established approach, so that’s fab. But as well as primarily being a memorial aircraft, there must surely also be considerations as to schemes that look good visually for the public, and dare I say it, which are even PC for the modern RAF- I mean, I can’t imagine that we’ll ever see any semi-clad ladies painted on PA474!

That’s a nice jolly artwork- never liked the recreated Phantom, thought it a poor job- this is much better!