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Re: Confederate Air Force - Whatever Happened to them?

I think the (Dave?) Tallichet Mossie is now the USAF Museum - think it was with Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in the 1980s for a while. The Confeds certainly had the remains of another one, but I think it was recovered from Mexico or somewhere and has never flown.

I believe Connie Edwards still has a hangar at Big Spring with several Buchons, Spitfires and P-51Ds stacked in it - his collection has been gradually whittled down over the years.

Went to Airsho 2000 - boy was it cold! Went equipped for summer and had to acquire sweaters! Good fun though, some fantastic types - best of all was the B-29, particularly its controversial Hiroshima re-enactment - the fireball warmed us all up! Though describing the Shackleton as a Lancaster grated a bit!
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