B-17

Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:10 pm

What is the nose art on the B-17 at Hendon UK?

Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:22 pm

The only two that I know of are Sally B & Mary Alice...

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17regis ... 85784.html

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17regis ... 83735.html

Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:30 pm

The one in the Hendon museum, s/n 44-83868 (ex N5237V) is, I believe, unmarked.

Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:36 pm

WOW!..I didnt know they had a B-17 there...

Here is a link

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/coll ... aft_id=109

YOU'RE RIGHT...doesnt look like its named.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17regis ... 83868.html

Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:56 pm

Unless it has changed since my last visit - unmarked by nose art. One of the docnets indicated it was painted "as delivered", or maybe he meant as one of those "might have been delivered", from the factory.

Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:05 pm

Probably,he meant "As delivered to the museum".This B-17 was Tanker 65 when I flew it for TBM Inc./Butler Aircraft.It was returned to as close to military specs as possible by TBM and painted prior to the ferry flight to England.

Air Vice Marshal Ron Dick, TBM's Director of Maintenance Kenny Stubbs,and a navigator from the RAF ferried the airplane over in the early 80"s.I flew its last tanker season in 1982 on a CDF contract out of Porterville.