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DUXFORD
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B-17 Preservation Ltd, 'Sally B'
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23rd July 2011
*NEW UPDATE*
At mid-day, Sally-B fired up her engines for the second Crew Training Flight of the year. Due to a bit of a cross wind, on the take off run Sally-B drifted across the runway and dipped its starboard wheel onto the grass and took off across the runway instead of along it. She returned an hour later, after doing circuits at Cambridge airport, with a one wheel landing and parked up in its usual slot
24th June 2011
Boeing B-17G-105-VE/c.n. 8693/124485/DF-A/SallyB & Memphis Belle/(44-85784)(G-BEDF)
JUN 1945 - Built by Lockheed-Vega, Burbank, and accepted into the United States Army Air Force as 44-85784. Too late for WWII, flown to Nashville for conversion and modification for training purposes.
NOV 1945 - Re-designated as a TB-17G, flown to Wright Field and the 2750th Air Base group.
1949 - Selected as a research aircraft for various trials and re-designated as an EB-17G.
1950 - Leased from the USAF by General Electric Flight Training Centre, New York.
1954 - Flown to Hill AFB and converted back to a standard B-17G and struck off charge.
NOV 1954 - Acquired by the Institut Geographic National (IGN), France and registered as F-GBSR and based at Creil.
MAR 1975 - Acquired by Ted White, registered as N17TE and based at IWM Duxford.
AUG 1976 - Re-registered as G-BEDF
At 12.45, B-17 Sally-B fired up her four Wright Cyclone engines in great plumes of white smoke. It did a couple of circuits over the airfield before departing for Cambridge for crew training. It returned at 14.10 with a very nice topside pass but I photographing the Mk XIV Spit sitting in the sunshine outside the TFC hangar and didn’t have a long enough lens fitted.
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