Old Bill B17-F 42-29673

[dujardin]

helloooooooooo,

wow, i was thinking it was just a well knowed nose art but i discover it's a real institution.

i visit this little link dedicated to BB.
no no, not Brigitte Bardot.....BB for Bruce Bairnsfather.
i discover another plane painted in his honour, also a bomber but not USAAF; it was a RCAF Halifax.

http://images.google.be/imgres?imgurl=h ... -Qav-eybDg

some photos of my different searches.

this one from footnote

this one showing an Old Bill on a wall

wreck of Old Bill

the remain of this nose art somewhere in a museum...but where ????????
someone know where is the museum ???? and have someone a good and close picture of it ?????

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[deand]

That plane shows up in the old Memphis Bellle documentary.





dean

 

[dujardin]

That plane shows up in the old Memphis Bellle documentary.



you're right Dean, and he also appear in other different documentary.
i have the project to try to reproduce this sketch at the scale to place on the wall of my room; i well said TRY because i have no artistic talent, absolutely none.
byeeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[Django]

Marcel, that is really interesting! I posed your question on WIX to see if anyone knows where it might be displayed.

 

[Atticus]

Old Bill kinda reminds me of Whimpy from the Popeye cartoons.

AF

 

[BONNIEGIRL4]

Old Bill was a popular comic strip he did during the first world war - TOM