Avro Vulcan meets Lady be Good

[rreis]

(seen here: http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/12525779 ... 24-lady-be )

[lmritger]

One word:

WOW.

[The Inspector]

9 years elapsed between the crash of LBG and the first flight of the VULCAN prototype in 1952

TEMPUS FUGIT!!

[ZRX61]

9 years elapsed between the crash of LBG and the first flight of the VULCAN prototype in 1952

TEMPUS FUGIT!!

And:
There's only 11 years between the first flight of the Lancaster & the first flight of the Vulcan...

[Tiger Tim]

What a cool picture. Anyone know the story of how it came to be?

-Tim

[gary1954]

What a cool picture. Anyone know the story of how it came to be?

-Tim

Eggzackly what ran through my sometimes questionable thought process Tim. Hope we get an answer

[N3Njeff]

Is it me or am I the only one thats thinking that this is NOT the Lady!!

[Steve Nelson]

Oh that's the Lady all right. Not sure when that photo was taken, but you can clearly see that she'd already been thoroughly vandalized. Judging by her condition, I'd say late 60s or later. I've seen photos of her in the mid 60s in which the cockpit was still intact.

SN

[JDK]

It *is* the Lady Be Good, it is real, and the pic comes (in this case) from a post by 'Mark 12' on the Key forum, as referenced by the linked Tumblr website. Elsewhere, 'Mark 12' gave the background story as to how the pic got taken, but I don't have that to hand...

[Ken]

When I google LBG, the photos clearly show the tail broken off an a noticeable angle. This photo doesn't seem to show that at all. They also show the cockpit area as being mostly intact whereas the Vulcan photo appears to show severe damage aft of the pilots' greenhouse area. I'm baffled.

http://www.qmfound.com/lady_be_good_1959_4.jpg

[TROJANII]

In the original post's photo, the left rudder and elevator are missing, and in yours, they are intact.

[rreis]

JDK is right, here is the link where the link got his link

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showpost ... tcount=341

[N3Njeff]

When I google LBG, the photos clearly show the tail broken off an a noticeable angle. This photo doesn't seem to show that at all. They also show the cockpit area as being mostly intact whereas the Vulcan photo appears to show severe damage aft of the pilots' greenhouse area. I'm baffled.

http://www.qmfound.com/lady_be_good_1959_4.jpg

Yea I googled also and ALL LBG's pics have the tail twisted pretty good. This one still looks attached on the left skin. Im not sold that it LBG

[tom d. friedman]

the pic looks a little to good to me.

[m50a1ontos]

So....if that's not LBG (and I agree, it doesn't look like LBG) then who is it? Is there another B-24 lurking in the Sahara?