5050 x 3360 px | 42,8 x 28,4 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
8 juin 2008
Lieu:
Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Kent TN16 3BN, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Image of P-51D-25NA North American Mustang "Ferocious Frankie". The Current Owner is the Old Flying Machine Co, base at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range single-seat fighter aircraft that entered service with Allied air forces in the middle years of World War II. The P-51 became one of the conflict's most successful and recognizable aircraft. The best team trophy (Biggin Hill 2008), was awarded to the Spitfire flown by Nigel Lemb and the Mustang ("Ferocious Frankie") flown by Paul Bonhomme. History of the Aircraft: The OFMC Mustang was built at the North American Aviation Factory at Inglewood, California and accepted by the USAAF on 27/02/1945. One month later she was sent to the 8th Air Force, via Newark and Liverpool docks, serving at Leiston in Suffolk among other stations. She stayed in England for only 11 months and went back to Newark, New Jersey in January 1946. She was then kept in storage before moving to the Royal Canadian Air Force 9568 on 18/04/1947 and operated in Suffield, Alberta. In 1953 with only total 433 flying hours she was completely overhauled in Winnipeg. On 4/01/1954, after only 81 hours, she was put into outside storage in Carberry Manitoba, and sold in 1957 into private hands and registered as N6340T. The aircraft was bought for $5, 400 in 1962 and had a total of 511 airframe hours. In 1974, she flew in the Unlimited race at Reno finishing second with an average speed of 384mph – in what was effectively a stock (original) aeroplane. In April 1980 the aircraft flew across the Atlantic to her new owners, The Fighter Collection. She was re-sprayed and known as Candyman / Moose from the name on one side of the fuselage and the Moose’s head on the other. The Mustang was first displayed in the UK at Biggin Hill in 1981, flown by Ray Hanna, the OFMC’s founder. In 1989, after filming in ‘Memphis Belle’, the aircraft was given a complete overhaul by The Fighter Collection at Duxford
