B29 at Duxford

[2013BRM]

wowsers, she's a beauty, I'll be visiting tomorrow for a looksee

[davebem]

Unfortunately the American hangar is currently closed for refurbishment, you can barely see it at the moment.

[williamp]

Thats a shame. But there is still more then a days worth to see. And if you watch Battle of britain film beforehand, you can still see where they filmed

[aeropilot]

I can remember it flying in to Duxford

[2013BRM]

so better to see her out in the open, you can't appreciate her cooped up in there

[ecsrobin]

2013BRM said:

so better to see her out in the open, you can't appreciate her cooped up in there

But it's kept inside??

[FourWheelDrift]

aeropilot said:

I can remember it flying in to Duxford

As if by magic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPgz3P8q1VM

[TonyToniTone]

ecsrobin said:

But it's kept inside??

Not at the moment due to refurb.. see comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPgz3P8q1VM

[16v_paddy]

Here's some pics I found on another forum of the planes being moved about, I love how good they look in daylight

[GrumpyTwig]

I must have been walking around with my eyes closed as I didn't see it at all on Sunday.

The SR71 was also somewhat disappointingly stuffed in at the end of a crammed hanger with no 'official' way to walk around it and you only got one view from the front right.

Still was a good day out, lots of stuff flying around and plenty of pics taken.

[ecsrobin]

Ah the OP didn't make it clear.

They look great outside I'm sure my first visit to duxford as a lad many years ago the B52 was kept outside?

Looks like the sled could do with a dust.

[dave-the-diver]

I had a proper double take moment on the way up the M11 a week or so back when I saw that sitting outside.

Thought Fifi had dropped in!

David

[dr_gn]

ecsrobin said:

Ah the OP didn't make it clear.

They look great outside I'm sure my first visit to duxford as a lad many years ago the B52 was kept outside?

Looks like the sled could do with a dust.

I've got some pics I took in about '85/'86, and the B52 and B29 are outside, as are the Vulcan and TSR2 among many others.

[S3_Graham]

so the american hangar is closed?

[FourWheelDrift]

16v_paddy said:

B-25 low level fly-through the open hanger

[Eric Mc]

S3_Graham said:

so the american hangar is closed?

Yes. Major rebuild going on.

[Moose.]

I was there all last week with the Catalina and it was great to see them pulling various bits of tasty metal out of the American hanger and into the open. Some have been left outside like the B29, whilst others have been wheeled into other hangers. Apparently the plaster in the American hanger was turning to powder, becoming airborne and covering the aircraft. As it's corrosive this was not exactly desirable...

[FourWheelDrift]

A Sir Norman Foster mistake or Arup the builders? Or not a mistake? Was only completed in 1996 too. And what about the visitors breathing it in?

[fatboy b]

My claim to fame is that I once parked a Piper Archer I had just landed, next to Fifi at Fort Wayne airport back in 1991.

Sadly, it was pre-digital days and no film in the camera.

[aeropilot]

FourWheelDrift said:

A Sir Norman Foster mistake or Arup the builders?

Arup were the Structural Design Engineers, not the builders. The main building contractor was J.Sisk & Sons.

As to who's fault it is, most likely a combination of client, Architect, Engineers, QS's and contractor together, rather than attributable to any one of them, but given the Architect usually leads the team, blaming Foster's sounds like a plan to me