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Paul Bellamy
4/8/2011 6:56:51 PM | This just in from WiX...
"Mary Alice" being prepped for dismantling prior to further preservation work:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... 26&t=40406
Paul Bellamy
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EDanaII
4/9/2011 11:47:45 AM | They're gonna repaint it and rename it the Hard Seventeen, right? Muwahahaha!!! 😃
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wjpettit
4/10/2011 6:03:12 AM | Ed, You mean repaint and rename her "Jill's Jalopy"? Bill, son of George Pettit, TT/Eng on Jill's Jalopy
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donaldbyers
4/10/2011 10:58:42 AM | Reading between the lines I'm sure you ment the "Carrie B II" 42-97344!!!
Don
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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EDanaII
4/10/2011 1:06:53 PM | I don't get it?
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donaldbyers
4/10/2011 1:18:07 PM | It ment that I took the middle ground between you guys Ed which lent room for my uncle's aircraft.
Don
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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EDanaII
4/10/2011 1:41:32 PM | I shoulda put a smilie in there, Don. What I meant was "there are planes other than the Hard Seventeen???" 😃
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Paul Bellamy
4/12/2011 5:40:20 AM | New photos posted in the WiX thread.
PB
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Paul Bellamy
4/16/2011 8:36:09 AM | Horizontal stabilisers, wingtips and flaps off and transferred to the conservation hangar, armament being removed.
More new photos of page 2 of the WiX thread.
All the best,
Paul
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Paul Bellamy
6/19/2011 5:39:08 PM | Great time-lapse videos by Peter "Bomberflight" Green of the nose section being prepared for paint stripping HERE and the actual paint removal HERE.
All the best,
Paul
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Josie
6/23/2011 12:57:14 AM | Paul,
Thanks for sharing! Great videos!
Josie 🙂
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Paul Bellamy
6/24/2011 7:02:28 PM | I visited the restoration hangar at Duxford today, and got a few photos of progress.
Many thanks to Peter, and especially "crew chief" John for allowing me access "behind the barriers"...
John hard at work stripping the skin from the starboard horizontal stabiliser, framed by the wing trailing edge panels:
While I was there, Sally-B went up for a short refresher flight for the crewmembers:
She returned parked up shortly before I left:
All the best,
Paul
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Phoenix
8/1/2011 2:25:29 PM | I've been hearing through the grapevine that the 303rd are making an aggressive bid to have 'Mary Alice' re-schemed as a 303rd aircraft? If true the 401st really need to step in and out trump the 303rd!!
Anyone heard any different?
improvise, adapt, overcome
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Paul Bellamy
12/30/2011 8:48:37 PM | I note the WIX thread has now been retitled from the "Mary Alice thread" to the "Duxford restoration thread".
That doesn't seem to bode well for seeing the Mary Alice scheme again...
Paul Bellamy
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donaldbyers
12/30/2011 9:28:11 PM | I didn't change a thing Paul?
Don
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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Paul Bellamy
10/16/2012 9:16:00 AM | I had a meeting at Duxford yesterday, so got there early to take some snaps of how the B-17 looks now she's back in the American Air Museum hangar:
Looking a bit bare on this side now:
Chin turret being installed:
You'll notice she looks very low to the ground in this shot.
That's because the undercarriage legs are currently drained hence the scissors linkage is down on the stops:
They are still reasembling the tail section, but the tail turret is just about complete:
A couple of shots of "Uncle Frank's office".
No work was done on the ball turret this time around, we'll have to see what the planned 2014 work will entail:
Dan Knight's A2 jacket still on display:
All the best,
Paul
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