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P3D/P4D screenshots redux...oops!

Some more 'Sally B' action over southern England near its home of Duxford (original non-Accusim A2A WOP2 B-17G).

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Duxford Spitfire

The A2A Spitfire with a repaint by Avi8tor of the Duxford-based Anglia Aircraft Restorations' Spitfire Mk.V EE602, operated by Ultimate Warbird Flights.

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Repaint of [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]207 Squadron RAF LM271[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] EM-L Lancaster. 29.10 1944 the aircraft was hit by flak while attacking u-boat bunker (Allied codename "Bruno") in Bergen (Norway). The aircraft exploded, and debris is still to be found around the crash site.[/FONT]



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Back in the mid 1980s there was a Lancaster out in the open(!) at Perth Airport, I think she was re-homed in a more friendly environment some years later.
IIRC this aircraft was ex Aeronavale and operated out of New Caledonia (I think!) in the all white scheme, repainted in a generic RAF pattern for display at Perth.
For some obscure reason I really like the Maritime versions..................really nice one Jan!

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a few more Lancasters:
Lancaster B.1 LL845 WS-L of No.9 Squadron took part in Operation Exodus on 12 May 1945, transporting former POW's back to the UK.

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Lancaster B.1 LM220 WS-Y of No.9 Squadron, Bardney, UK, as flown by F/L W.D. Tweddle for the attack with Tallboy bombs on the Tirpitz attacks.

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Lancaster B.1 KB864 NA-S Sugar's Blues of No.428 Squadron RCAF , based in RAF Middleton St George, UK in 1944-45.

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one more:
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Lancaster B.1 R5508 of No.44 Squadron based on Waddington, UK, as flown by Squadron Leader John Nettleton from South Africa during the low-level daylight raid on the MAN factory in Augsburg, Germany on 17 April, 1942. It involved six aircraft of 44 squadron and six of 97 squadron, that had to fly some 1000 miles over hostile terrain in daylight at low level. Only two of 44 Sqn and five of 97 Sqn aircraft reached the target, and two more aircraft were shot down near Augsburg by flak. Four 97 sqn aircraft returned to base under cover of darkness, but of 44 Sqn, only Squadron Leader Nettletons aircraft, although heavily damaged, made it back to the UK. Nettleton received the VC for this raid, F/L Penman of 97 Sqn the DSO. 8 DFC's and 10 DFM's were awarded to other crew members. Nettleton died on 13 July 1943, returning from a raid on Turin. It is believed he was shot down near Brest by a FW190 of JG.2. His body and those of his crew were never recovered.
 
Painting Lancasters is not that exciting, since most wear the same camouflage, but there is some fun noseart, here's three more:
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Lancaster B.1 RF128 QB-V "Victorious Virgin" of No. 424 (RCAF) Squadron, based in Skipton on Swale, 1945.

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Lancaster B.III ED611 JO-U of No.463 (RAAF) Squadron as it looked on its 100th mission, September 1944.

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Lancaster B.1 W4954 WS-J "Johnnie Walker, still going strong" of No.9 Squadron, late 1944.
 
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