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Old 10th Nov 2005, 22:24
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According to a Canadian museum curator I contacted while working on a book about US-use of Beaus, the hulk at the Canadian Museum is a fuselage and up to the engine mounts only of a well-worn Mk VI that the RAF Museum traded for a Canadian held aircraft. When the hulk arrived, the Canucks were not overly impressed. There are no engines, wings, or interiors to the Canadian-hulk. The Museum said it had no plans or funds to restore the carcass.

I had a chance to get inside the USAF Museum's (ok, Nat'l Museum of the USAF) Beau, still lots of work to do on it, but it was a treat to actually be allowed inside the cockpit and nav/RO's position. Didn't really conceive of the size of the aircraft until I saw it in person. D***, it's a big 'un!