N4521U
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User Name: N4521U
Name: Bill
Category: Advanced
Entry: Blenheim Mk. IV
Kit: 1/72 Airfix
Accessories; Not many available for this little bugger. So probably not. Will have to do some mods, and scratching on this one, mainly interior, I think?
Completion also depends on Airfix. This is the first purchase from the auctions that has arrived damaged. One prop, and the main canopy, trash. Seller didn't label it fragile, and the box he shipped it is another flimsy box wrapping it tight. So I'll have to contact Airfix and see if I can get a replacement for each.
This is another Davidson build. Barry had fewer than fifty hours in his pilot's logbook when he took off in a Blenheim IV (R8662) on a daylight raid with #18 Squadron. It was July 6, 1940 and he was ordered to bomb an enemy aerodrome in France. It was to be his first and only combat operation and the first day of almost five years as a POW.
After successfully attacking the target the aircraft was struck by flak. With his elevators and compass out of action, P/O Davidson headed back across the English Channel. Upon reaching the coast, he put his Blenheim down on what he
thought was an English beach and later recalled, "I was reading a map in the observer's position, trying to see where we might be in England .Suddenly I looked up and Germans were swarming down from the cliffs onto the beach." In
a letter to his parents in Calgary he wrote, "Looks like I am in cold storage for the duration." He eventually ended up in Stalag Luft III.
Fellow POW's in Stalag Luft III referred to Barry as "The Scrounger" for his skill at obtaining necessary escape materials from the other side of the barbed wire. He used these talents in several break-out attempts, the best known of which was documented in Paul Brickhill's book, "The Great Escape," which was later glamorized in a Hollywood film.
The Blenheim aircraft in the Bomber Command Museum Canada has been restored in memory of Barry Davidson and carries the RAF markings of the aircraft he flew, as well as honouring Barry, it is a memorial to all those allied airmen who became Prisoners of War.
The painting is by John B. Rutherford
Name: Bill
Category: Advanced
Entry: Blenheim Mk. IV
Kit: 1/72 Airfix
Accessories; Not many available for this little bugger. So probably not. Will have to do some mods, and scratching on this one, mainly interior, I think?
Completion also depends on Airfix. This is the first purchase from the auctions that has arrived damaged. One prop, and the main canopy, trash. Seller didn't label it fragile, and the box he shipped it is another flimsy box wrapping it tight. So I'll have to contact Airfix and see if I can get a replacement for each.
This is another Davidson build. Barry had fewer than fifty hours in his pilot's logbook when he took off in a Blenheim IV (R8662) on a daylight raid with #18 Squadron. It was July 6, 1940 and he was ordered to bomb an enemy aerodrome in France. It was to be his first and only combat operation and the first day of almost five years as a POW.
After successfully attacking the target the aircraft was struck by flak. With his elevators and compass out of action, P/O Davidson headed back across the English Channel. Upon reaching the coast, he put his Blenheim down on what he
thought was an English beach and later recalled, "I was reading a map in the observer's position, trying to see where we might be in England .Suddenly I looked up and Germans were swarming down from the cliffs onto the beach." In
a letter to his parents in Calgary he wrote, "Looks like I am in cold storage for the duration." He eventually ended up in Stalag Luft III.
Fellow POW's in Stalag Luft III referred to Barry as "The Scrounger" for his skill at obtaining necessary escape materials from the other side of the barbed wire. He used these talents in several break-out attempts, the best known of which was documented in Paul Brickhill's book, "The Great Escape," which was later glamorized in a Hollywood film.
The Blenheim aircraft in the Bomber Command Museum Canada has been restored in memory of Barry Davidson and carries the RAF markings of the aircraft he flew, as well as honouring Barry, it is a memorial to all those allied airmen who became Prisoners of War.
The painting is by John B. Rutherford
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