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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:40 pm 
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SPANNERmkV wrote:
Thanks for re-vitalizing this thread.
I remember making the Estate folks nervous because Peter Green and I kept driving around the field and stopping at every remnant of a taxi-way that we could Identify and we had the Roger Freeman book on airfields out comparing the aerial views with what was left.
Finally I went and grabbed a chunk of aggregate out of a pile so that I would always have a small piece of Grafton Underwood.

Not that it is relevant to this thread, but I am becoming Wing Leader of the TEXAS RAIDERS again.
If only I could win the lottery... I might convince them to let me paint at least ONE side of the vertical stabilizer with a Triangle P. :axe:

Or better still- Donate enough to Ray Moore to finish Lucky 13.

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Congrats man!!! And that would be cool to see a "slight" change to the markings. :D

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RAMC181 wrote:
Not really Chris, sorry.

The closest RAF design hangar to that, with a curved roof, would be the earlier J-Type.
These were only built on 1938-41 constructed permanent or parent airfields.
Chelveston, Polebrook and Molesworth each had a single J-Type along with a pair of T-2s.
Satellite and post-1941 Class A temporary airfields were planned to have four T-2s but the vast majority only had two each.

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If what you already have could be reprofiled with a pitched roof and having the doors stepped outwards (running on external rails) you'd end up with a presentable representation of a T-2. I can point you in the direction of full dimensioned construction drawings for one if that would help.

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:evil: Thats what I get for building and not researching. Thanks though! I'd rather be right than wrong. So now what Ill do is reuse this base and hangar for a different bird, and use it for a different airfield. Ill model a new diorama for this B-17, Wolf Pack. Anyone have any suggestions as to a part of Grafton-Underwood? doesnt necessarly have to be one of the hangars.

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Trees aren't a problem. I use alot of diorama / n scale modeling tricks. Actually I was already thinking of doing one of the frying pan pads. How big were these pads and what kind of trees could be found in the Dukes Forrest? Any pictures of these pads?

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Grafton's treeline pan dispersals were 150' in diameter with a 50' wide approach taxiway.

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