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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
"Return to Duxford"
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
skyhawka4m
Charter Member
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Yeah, the idea behind it has been with me for a few months and glad to finally make it happen.
The scenery is the Horizon VFR Gen-X UK scenery, with the freeware (but payware quality) Duxford airfield scenery by the ACG.
Also, flying "Big Beautiful Doll" from Duxford has nothing to do with the restored example that was destroyed there last summer (being an Austrailian CAC-manufactured Mustang, restored in the colors of "BBD"). As most should know, the 78th FG was based at Duxford in the last few years of the war, operating P-47's, and then Mustangs. "Return to Duxford" sees a depiction of the original wartime "Big Beautiful Doll" and the wartime "Twilight Tear" return to the airfield they called home in 1945.
The scenery is the Horizon VFR Gen-X UK scenery, with the freeware (but payware quality) Duxford airfield scenery by the ACG.
Also, flying "Big Beautiful Doll" from Duxford has nothing to do with the restored example that was destroyed there last summer (being an Austrailian CAC-manufactured Mustang, restored in the colors of "BBD"). As most should know, the 78th FG was based at Duxford in the last few years of the war, operating P-47's, and then Mustangs. "Return to Duxford" sees a depiction of the original wartime "Big Beautiful Doll" and the wartime "Twilight Tear" return to the airfield they called home in 1945.
res non verba
Charter Member
sad the lost of this piece of history, at the same time awesome set of shots!
cheers!
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cheers!
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Just as long as you understand that that wasn't the original "Big Beautiful Doll" that was involved in that accident last year. Unfortunately I have seen many different comments since the accident occurred last year, which make it seem that so many people think, or assume, that it was the original "Big Beautiful Doll", where as the orginal has been long-gone since the 40's (the one that I have reproduced). In fact the airframe involved is actually a CAC (Australian) Mustang, that wasn't manufactured until the 1950's (though it of course is no less pain to see any P-51, of any type, damaged or lost in such a way). Also, and what perhaps has led to even more confusion (since, and over the years), is that there is another P-51D "Big Beautiful Doll" that has been flying in the U.S. since the early-mid 90's (which has also always had much more accurate markings then the one that was involved in last years incident). I have heard everything from people asserting that the aircraft were one in the same (somehow getting back and forth between the U.S. and the U.K. every year!?), to others thinking that the U.S. example is the same as the one that was lost last year, already rebuilt. 
Here is the U.S. based example, which was owned by Ed Shipley for quite a while, and has since been owned by Mike Henningsen since around '03 (you'll often see this aircraft at Oshkosh each summer): http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-63634
And here is the European based example which was involved in the incident last summer (which should be seen back in the air again in several more years - at least it will be labeled as such): http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/A68-192
That is also not the only case of two current Mustangs having the same scheme. The P-51D owned by Jerry Yagen, and one of the P-51D's owned by the Friedkin familly, are both painted as "Double Trouble Two". If you know what to look for, there are numerous, subtle differences, making them easy to tell apart for many of those like us, but for the casual viewer, they wouldn't know one from the other (despite the other fact that Jerry's plane has a Spitfire mirror, and the Friedkin's example does not). Both of these were at the GML2007 event at the same time, making it hard on some to understand that two Mustangs could be painted the same way.
Jerry Yagen's: http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-63507t
Tom and Dan Friedkin's: http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-73856
Here is the U.S. based example, which was owned by Ed Shipley for quite a while, and has since been owned by Mike Henningsen since around '03 (you'll often see this aircraft at Oshkosh each summer): http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-63634
And here is the European based example which was involved in the incident last summer (which should be seen back in the air again in several more years - at least it will be labeled as such): http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/A68-192
That is also not the only case of two current Mustangs having the same scheme. The P-51D owned by Jerry Yagen, and one of the P-51D's owned by the Friedkin familly, are both painted as "Double Trouble Two". If you know what to look for, there are numerous, subtle differences, making them easy to tell apart for many of those like us, but for the casual viewer, they wouldn't know one from the other (despite the other fact that Jerry's plane has a Spitfire mirror, and the Friedkin's example does not). Both of these were at the GML2007 event at the same time, making it hard on some to understand that two Mustangs could be painted the same way.
Jerry Yagen's: http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-63507t
Tom and Dan Friedkin's: http://mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-73856
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Riccardo, that is correct - unfortunately no buildings (outside of the Shawbury Fields scenery I have), but the addition of trees alone really does a lot for the scenery.