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Old 23rd Sep 2010, 21:04
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Dora-9
 
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Another lovely photo, thank you Dan!

These are the other EFTS photos I have, presumably taken art the same time as the one I posted earlier. I think that's Lincoln Cathedral in the backround(?).







Did you know WG478 went on to Berlin in 1993? Apparently as a back-up aircraft for the Berlin Garrison wind-down events, but ended up leading both the 1994 Queen's Birthday Parade and Berlin Garrison Disbandment Parade flypasts. Sorry this shot isn't of the best quality - I actually managed to stand on the "Gatow" sign two years' ago!



Sadly she wasn't in a good state when I got her - just a jumbled and very mixed bag of components; WG478's fuselage and (damaged) vertical surfaces, WP805's very cruddy wings, a factory-fresh tailplane, a time-expired engine (not the one that WG478 retired with) and nothing else forward of the firewall. What started off as a simple project simply grew - amazing what you can achieve by just keeping on spending!
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