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By: 20th October 2014 at 14:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Similar field (B-17 recovery & flight) also near to Bere Regis in Dorset: I did have photos a while ago, but sadly lost in the Great Memory Stick FUBAR of 2012....
By: 21st October 2014 at 23:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Another more famous recovery of a B-17 being flown out of a field was at the end of March 1945.
For reasons unknown to me, a 398th Bomb Group B-17, Ser No. 43-39137, landed in a field very close to its Nuthampstead base near Royston.
The aircraft was stripped of much weight, was fitted with a number of rocket packs and then successfully flown off a temporary PSP runway for the very short flight back to the airfield.
The rocket packs were mounted in fabricated rails and I believe fitted to the two underwing external bomb pylon mount positions, that were provided right through the B-17's production life.
By: 22nd October 2014 at 11:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-See my website...photos etc.here for the Devon B-17F Werewolf 41-24606...
http://devonairfields.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dawly.html
and here for Stella 42-29651 at Lytchett Minster in Dorset...
http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/lymin.html
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By: DavidIsby - 20th October 2014 at 14:23
http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Research-reveals-stricken-World-War-bomber/story-22855330-detail/story.html