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AV O

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What sad looking menagerie! don't you just wish the person they belong to if they can no longer look after them! would put a "Free to loving home" in the free adds!! I`m sure I could squeeze an F-104 into my back garden! somehow!! :pilot:

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In Detail here :

http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?page=0&q=Musee%20du%20Chateau%20de%20Savigny&u=operator&sort=photographer_z_a&limit=50

Not only Airplanes.

Motorbikes :

and Cars as well :

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Incredible, thanks for posting!


It's near Beaune, in Burgundy, worth a visit in it's own right.

So the Americans have the Bone-Yard, the French have the Beane-Yard ... :coat:

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Wow! that's some place! I used to restore classic motor cycles with my friend! who sadly passed away a short time ago he would have loved that place!.

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Hmmm. Explaining that the holiday to France ending up at a hotel full of aircraft might stretch to a coincidence. Meeting 20 fellow Britmodellers each with astonished partners who have accidentally done the same probably wouldn't work !!!!

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XM178 Lightning F1A 23 Sqn markings. Some amazing airframes there - shame they are not hangered

Interesting - 23 only ever flew F3s and F6s. :hmmm: I agree the painted-out emblem on the tail looks like it may be the 23 Sqn emblem, but equally could it be something else perhaps?

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Maybe.... collect a few less planes....and then build a hangar for the ones you have.

Helping preserve them for future generations.

Voila!

Cest bon!

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- Owing to the proximity of the middle age castle, the owner of the "museum", Mr Pont, is not allowed by the authorities to built an hangar or even a shelter to protect his wonderful collection. I'm a regular visitor of this part of Burgondy but not wistanding my love for whatever flies I carefully avoid visiting this place, this treasure in direlicts is too sad, I prefer visit the vineyards and their associated " caveau"

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Complimentary pictures to the museum ones at the top of the thread (http://www.abpic.co....er_z_a&limit=50) :

http://ckclub31.ipmsfrance.org/musee/savigny/

More museums visits :

http://ckclub31.ipmsfrance.org/ckclub2/les_virees__les_musees_032.htm

More info about this website or how to go through it :

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/79181-walk-around-hal-hf-24-marutpucaracanuck-many-more/:

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Interesting - 23 only ever flew F3s and F6s. :hmmm: I agree the painted-out emblem on the tail looks like it may be the 23 Sqn emblem, but equally could it be something else perhaps?

http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/Xm178_23.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgsfoto747/12162049053/

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/XM178.jpg

HTH

andy

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Thanks Andy. However, given the general state of them, and the lack of ejection seats, armament, and on two of them pitot probe, I suspect these are airfield decoys. It does explain the markings though.

This thread's quite old now so I can't recall where I got my info, but I suspect from my copy of Jefford's RAF Squadrons

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