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Oct 4^th, 2007 at 5:01am

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Here are my first uploaded photos:
I took them in London some weeks ago (I know they're not very good Tongue

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Reply #1 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 5:57am

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Elwood wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 5:01am:

Here are my first uploaded photos:
I took them in London some weeks ago (I know they're not very good Tongue

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On the contary. They are excellent for the conditions. I know how difficult it is to get decent photos in the average museum.

That's the second photo of a He 162 I've seen in this forum today. Wink

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Reply #2 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 9:19am

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The spinner on the Spit needs cleaning

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #3 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 10:40am

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ozzy72 wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 9:19am:

The spinner on the Spit needs cleaning

Nah, that's genuine old age... Wink

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Reply #4 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 11:52am

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I went to the one in duxford not long ago, nice shots.

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Reply #5 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 12:56pm

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Just a n00b question, is that the original Big Beautiful Doll?

If so... It's a deep shame it's hanging there(for I'm a person who doesn't like hanging airplanes:P)

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Reply #6 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 1:07pm

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Mees wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 12:56pm:

Just a n00b question, is that the original Big Beautiful Doll?

Nope. Of the top of my head, I believe it was a RCAF example...

[edit]...and a quick google confirms it is:

RCAF 9246, ex P-51D-25-NA 44-73979 delivered 6 December 1950; served shortly with No. 416 Sqn, wfu 16.5.1951, to A612 (RCAF) Instructional airframe

It was restored at IWM Duxford in the 1980s.

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If so... It's a deep shame it's hanging there(for I'm a person who doesn't like hanging airplanes:P)

Being a converted hospital there is no other space to put them! Grin

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Reply #7 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 1:17pm

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Mees wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 12:56pm:

Just a n00b question, is that the original Big Beautiful Doll?

Several restored P-51ds are painted to represent 'Big Beautiful Doll' in 78th Fighter Group checkerboard markings including airworthy examples in the UK & US. Not sure that any of them are original. Colonel John Landers served with several units of the 8th Air Force in Europe including 78th, 357th and 361st FG flying P-38’s and P-51’s, all of which were named “Big Beautiful Doll”. http://www.cebudanderson.com/bigdoll.htm

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Reply #8 - Oct 4^th, 2007 at 1:34pm

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Hagar wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 1:17pm:

Mees wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 12:56pm:

Just a n00b question, is that the original Big Beautiful Doll?

Several restored P-51ds are painted to represent 'Big Beautiful Doll' in 78th Fighter Group checkerboard markings including airworthy examples in the UK & US. Not sure that any of them are original. Colonel John Landers served with several units of the 8th Air Force in Europe including 78th, 357th and 361st FG flying P-38’s and P-51’s, all of which were named “Big Beautiful Doll”. http://www.cebudanderson.com/bigdoll.htm

Sadly it makes it almost impossible to find on the internet, as so many Mustangs appear under the false alias of 44-72218, which just gives too many google answers which are totally irrelevant...

I imagine it was scrapped.

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