by jankees » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:00 am
Nice pic, but the story could be better, or the same story, with different paintjobs.
We have B-17G "Sally B" in "Memphis Belle" movie costume, (both ETO, based in the UK) being escorted by the Flying Undertaker, a P-51D flown by Maj Shomo from the Phillipines. Chances of them meeting during the war were not very high (unless one of them took a seriously wrong turn somewhere), and post war, well...maybe. Sally B is based in the UK and was flying like this during and after the filming of "Memphis Belle" in 1990. She recently received a new coat. As for the P-51, 45-11381 flew as the flying undertaker between '74 and 1990 in the US, and at present 45-11526 is flying in more or less the same scheme (since 1999), but in Australia. They're still hard to bring together...
Sorry to be such a pain, but I've painted so many of these things, that I notice details like that.
I do like the picture though, I like the hazy countryside just visible in the back.