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Just browsing Google Earth and noted that the lot where the Beijing P-61 and a number of other aircraft were is completely empty!

Whappened?

Is that new construction I see at the Chinese Air Force Museum?????
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Could it finally be indoors?

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Could Paul Allen have gotten it? I wish that P-61 and P-47 could come home!!!!!!!

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A while ago, there where rumors at one point of it being sold off to US interest.

Who knows.
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Maybe "Setter" even has photos of it being transported out :wink: ...
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Maybe "Setter" even has photos of it being transported out :wink: ...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe it's in storage with the Chinese Wellington? :twisted:

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Maybe "Setter" even has photos of it being transported out :wink: ...

Perhaps it is with the pair being stored by a trucking company in Manchester, UK, that he had 'cease and desist' letters from Paul Allen's lawyers about.
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A guy I know said this guy who knows his sister's boyfriend was talking to some dude at the Wok'N'Roll while picking up a #4 combo and he said that his cousin in Beijing had helped move "a black airplane with two engines and two tails" into a big hangar with some kind of "bomber number 32", a big four engined thing with a huge single tail. He said what was really weird was how this big plane was all dusty, like it had been on the moon or something.

Anyways, it sounded legit, maybe you guys oughta check it out.

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Maybe it's in storage with the Chinese Wellington?


No, no...it was a Stirling.....not a Wellington. :wink:

And after all....with the latest Lanc repro made for Dam Buster..( And I have to admit they look good too ) ..who says a Chinese Stirling is not a possibility HEHE


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Maybe TIGHAR discovered it and recovered it!

Oh, wrong twin tail, twin engine fighter! Oops! :shock:
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Maybe it's in storage with the Chinese Wellington?


No, no...it was a Stirling.....not a Wellington. :wink:


Ahh yes... a Sterling, it was buried in my notes next to the B-32 photos in the Marianas Trench, the P-38's in the
PI ditch and the Martin Baltimore or Maryland survivors in Burma(?). :lol:

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nyuk nyuk nyuk...

Ok, anyone have any REAL info? :lol:

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The aircraft previously stored/displayed here are documented here...
ImageAerial Visuals - Location Dossier - BUAA Aviation Museum

The historical dates on Google Earth imagery indicates the airframes were moved sometime between 2 August 2008 and September 2009. Anyone traveling to China any time soon? :wink:

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Some photos from airliners might clear this up:
http://www.airliners.net/photo//1529450 ... d45f4f9646

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Ai ... d45f4f9646

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Ai ... d45f4f9646
It looks like she's had her wings removed.
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mrhenniger wrote:
The aircraft previously stored/displayed here are documented here...
ImageAerial Visuals - Location Dossier - BUAA Aviation Museum

The historical dates on Google Earth imagery indicates the airframes were moved sometime between 2 August 2008 and September 2009. Anyone traveling to China any time soon? :wink:

Mike


If you look just past the one large building South of the lot in Mike's locator above, you will see the aircraft in their temporary storage location in what looks like a parking lot. Look at the top right side and you'll make out the black outline of the P-61 sans wings as shown in the photos from Airliners.net.

I just hope they removed the wings properly and not with a saw...

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