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These images are from my visit to the UK in March 99.  They are all pretty large (250k) because I was trying to get a good bit of detail in them. 

I was fortunate to meet up with a friend that plays the same game I do.  (full story, as published on news.Bigweek.com is here.)

These first two were taken at Tangmere.  This place had a lot of personal data from WW2.  They disapproved of pictures in the rest of the museum, so I've only got a couple of shots of a Hurricane II and a Spitfire.

TangmereHurri.jpg (215640 bytes)  TangmereSpit.jpg (232010 bytes) - me in front of the Spit.   Don't worry - lots of Spits to come.

We traveled the next day to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.  That's where the rest of these were taken.

The first photos are from outside the American Air Museum.  They had erected a memorial to the US planes that flew from England in WW2. Each glass pane is about 3 feet wide and 5.5 feet high.  On them are a varying number of plane images, each representing a plane that flew from the UK in WW2 that did not come back.

USAirMemorial.jpg (288770 bytes) USAMuseum_me.jpg (323110 bytes)

Here is the layout of the planes inside the US Air Museum

USAMuseum_Layout.jpg (232890 bytes) the Auto-focus didn't, so you can't read the plane type - basically - a B52 in the middle, with a U2 over it, a F14(?) and F? Thud at the nose.  In the top right, we have a B25 (with an Avenger over it, and a couple of later era jets behind the Avenger).  Beside the B25 is a B29 (2nd biggest plane there).  Under the tail of the B52 you'll find the tail end of a B17G called the Mary Alice.  Just under her left wing is a P47.  In the top left corner is a P51.  The big plane to the left of the B17 is a C47.

Fidd looking at the B25 - B25andFidd.jpg (208751 bytes)

The B29 - and the tail of the Avenger...bomber.jpg (222951 bytes)

The B17G - Mary Alice b17nose.jpg (230034 bytes) and from the other side.   Note the opening just forward of the tail b17.jpg (232941 bytes)

That is an opening with a Plexiglas bubble, so you can see inside - this is looking forward B17_Inside.jpg (254515 bytes)

Just then a brain cramp struck me - I didn't take a photo looking backward....

The P51 p51.jpg (197716 bytes)  and the P47 p47.jpg (207033 bytes)

Outside of the US Air Museum, they have a V1 & it's ramp on display u1.jpg (297239 bytes)

We moved on to the next hanger at the base, where they were restoring some planes.  

An ME 163 me163.jpg (248502 bytes)

This is the wing to one of the planes being restored  - wing.jpg (262766 bytes) - Care to make a guess as to what it is? (email me at bryandonaldson@mindspring.com)

A German HE111 undergoing reconstruction. heiii.jpg (247003 bytes)

The next hanger had a number of static displays in it.  These planes aren't airworthy.

A Spanish version of the 109.  The Spanish licensed the airframe and built some themselves.  They had made arrangements to procure engines from Messerschmidt(sp?), but they couldn't supply them.  So, they ended up getting Merlin engines from the UK.   These were 109's with Spitfire engines.Spanish 109.jpg (228369 bytes)

A P47, with some engine work apparently underway whitep47.jpg (256182 bytes)

Looking across one Spitfire to another...2 Spits.jpg (265879 bytes)

A F4U Corsair f4u.jpg (258209 bytes)

A P40 (they noted that a shark mouth was painted on almost anything that had wings...)p40.jpg (274970 bytes)

A later Spitfire - I think it's a Mk XIV Spiit XIV.jpg (239288 bytes)

This is a 109 that had actually seen combat - notice the bullet hole in the prop... Combat109.jpg (243761 bytes)

Then we came to the "Fighter Collection".  These planes were all airworthy.

The front of a Blenheim bomber (looking into the Bombardier's section)  Blenheim front.jpg (227435 bytes)

And then from the rear blenheim.jpg (188159 bytes)

Another spit: spitfire.jpg (279377 bytes)

What's this?  A two-seater spit?  DoubleSpit.jpg (257391 bytes)

Hmm.   An AT6? atg.jpg (285249 bytes)

And there's where we ran outta planes...