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Re: Elusive Pucara -- I have a shot of A-533!
Posted by TonyD on Mon Apr 21, 2003 03:55:35 PM
In reply top Re: Elusive Pucara -- I have a shot of A-533! posted by Ian Powell on Sun Apr 20, 2003 04:24:45 PM
Indeed you are correct about 533....The Museum scrapped her a few years back. I pleaded with the scrappy to save at least a part of her...and after much wrangling came away with the nose section (the bonnet part and a few other small parts ended up at Flixton on the Norfolk & Suffolk Av Museums example).
For those that care, I have preserved the original paint on A-533 so as top show future generations how they looked. The Cosford example (and I believe Duxford's too) have been repainted far too well...i.e. wrong!
A-533 had an amazing career and flew back with 120+ strikes in the fuz, including several in the engine.
: Thanks for the various replies. A-533 sadly is no more alt
: hough the cockpit remains at Boscombe Down. I can account
: for all the museum ones but A-517 still eludes me.
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: I've added a link to a picture A-515 which flew on trials
: from Boscombe Down in the '80s.
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: If anyone ever came across A-517 I'd be grateful for the i
: nfo.
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: Ian
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: : Out of lurk mode:
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: : I have a photo of Pucara A-533 that was taken at the Mid
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: : e Wallop air show when I was a child visiting my relativ
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: : in England in 1984.
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: : Anyone know what happened to this airframe?
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: : On a side note, that was an amazing air show-- the sight
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: : f the Vulcan doing several fly-by's down the flight line
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: : till is with me to this day.
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: : If anyone is interested, I can scan the image and e-mail
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: : t.
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: : Michael
: : Corvallis, Oregon USA
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