Brian Turpin has added interest to the correction by kindly sending us the picture. He says, “Attached is a photo of David (left), Clive Denney and myself at Binbrook on August 6, 1989, just prior to leaving for Prestwick en route to Buffalo. We are standing under the nose of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle. Behind is Sally B pretending to be the Belle. Clive was on the trip as flight engineer and relief pilot”.

TAH subscriber Mike Provost sent us these photographs, which he took at Duxford in April 1975. They show newly arrived B-17 Sally B, still bearing the legend “Euroworld” on its nose (it was actually the name of the ferrying company established by B-17 Preservation Ltd’s founder Ted White). David Tallichet’s B-24 Delectable Doris is visible in the background of both images.

A dramatic image of one of Italy’s Dornier Do Xs soon after take-off, with water still streaming from the base of its water-rudder.

Do X MM.182 Umberto Maddalena arrived in Italy in 1931 but never entered airline service, instead being allocated a military identity.