Time for another relationship from Duxford . This time, the airport located near Cambridge hosted the largest in Europe shows the historical aircraft . This year, the undisputed star of the event was the first public demonstration of the restored ( by The Fighter Collection) P -47 G- 10 Thunderbolt ( Snafu ) – the aircraft wears the color copy belonging to the 78th Fighter Group, which during the war was stationed at the same airport. Among the other participants in the demonstrations do not run out of aircraft permanently based at Duxford , such as , among others, B- 17G ” Sally B”, P- 51D ” Miss Velma ” and ” Ferocious Frankie , Ha -112 Buchon , Hawker Nimrod . Additionally, the airport stood 9 Spitfire -ow including three versions MK 1 !
Duxford Flying Legends 2012
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