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    P-51A Carol's Daddy

    in MSFS 2020 Users Screenshots

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    spacer.png[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2ocF2v1]carol (0005)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/2ocAaFX][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52639689297_a77d7a7ea1_h.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2ocAaFX]carol (0007)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/2ocE7k7][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52640458444_13014ba96c_h.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2ocE7k7]carol (0006)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr

    Curtiss Jenny Lillian Boyer

    in MSFS 2020 Users Screenshots

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    Lillian Boyer (January 15, 1901 – February 1, 1989) was an American wing walker who performed numerous aerial stunts that included wing walking, automobile-to-airplane transfers, and parachute jumps between 1921 and 1929.

     

    52576464452_3dc0db4f78_o.jpgLillian (0002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    Working as a restaurant waitress but eager to fly in an airplane, in 1921 Lillian Boyer was invited by two restaurant customers to take an airplane ride. On her second flight, she climbed out on the wing thus beginning her career as an aerial performer.

     

    52576922431_1058ed6947_o.jpgLillian (0004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    In December 1921, she began five months of training with pilot Lt. Billy Brock, former World War I pilot and barnstormer. She performed many daring stunts and achieved great public acclaim until 1929 when federal regulations on low flying and unsafe planes forced her and many other barnstormers into retirement.

     

    52577368670_f714dfa048_o.jpgLillian (0001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    Her performances included 352 shows in 41 US states and Canada, most of them wing-walking; 143 automobile-to-plane changes; 37 parachute jumps (13 into Lake Erie).

     

    52576464437_6c753cfd9a_o.jpgLillian (0005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    You can see this amazing woman in action here:

    and here:

    P-40 RNZAF Gloria Lyons

    in MSFS 2020 Users Screenshots

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    As the result of correspondence between two armourers of No. 4 Servicing Unit at Ondonga, on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, and a pen-friend who was a tuberculosis patient at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand named Gloria Lyons, it was decided to adopt her as a unit mascot. At that time 4 (SU) aircraft carried code letters, so one P-40N-1, NZ3148 coded 'G', was duly christened 'Gloria Lyons', and this name was painted on the lower engine cowls.

     

    52569599168_bceacde56e_o.jpgGloria1 (0006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    52569350034_dc37cd7966_o.jpgGloria 3 (0001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    52569517025_623352f3c1_o.jpgGloria1 (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    After this aircraft was written off due to a crash landing on February 9th, 1944, another candidate was found in NZ3167 ( This a/c has often been listed as having been NZ3188), a P-40N-5 that was also sign written with the name.

    This aircraft was also to be written off (two weeks later) after being hit by enemy ground fire while on a strafing mission to northern Bougainville on May 17th, 1944. The pilot, F.O. Charlie Woods, who co-incidentally was involved in the loss of the first 'Gloria Lyons', was forced to bail out into the sea.

     

    A third P-40 (an N-20), NZ3220, was selected as the next candidate, and was duly marked. The cumulative scores and missions of the three 'Gloria Lyons' P-40s were painted on the fuselage of NZ3220. These were 55 Yellow bomb symbols representing strike missions, and two and a half Japanese flags representing victories over enemy aircraft.

    52569349989_036d699b48_o.jpgGloria 3 (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    52569517175_cb275d5889_o.jpgGloria 3 (0002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    52569350034_dc37cd7966_o.jpgGloria 3 (0001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

     

    When it returned to New Zealand in late 1944, it was repainted in the Foliage Green/(NZ) Sky Gray scheme, but the markings were retained. Somehow it escaped being scrapped and was sold to John Smith, a collector, who stored on his farm in Mapua. After his death last year, it was discovered as a barn find, together with a Tiger Moth, P-51, a Mosquito and another P-40. She is currently undergoing restoration.

     

    WB_NewZealand_P40.jpg

     

    As a footnote, the fourth and last 'Gloria Lyons' was an F4U-1A, NZ5233, which was written off after a landing accident at Torokina on June 15th, 1944.

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