THE FIGHTER Collection and Imperial War Museum (IWM) at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, has announced that the Flying Bulls display team is to make its debut UK airshow appearance at Flying Legends 2011, on Saturday 9-10 July. The Flying Bulls' Lockheed P-38 and Chance Vought Corsair are to perform a stunning airshow sequence as well as executing solo routines of their own. While the IWM Duxford already has a F4U Corsair based at the airfield, it will no doubt be the P-38L Lightning (N25Y) that will attract the most interest for aviation enthusiasts. The P-38 (N25Y) was retired from USAAF service in September 1945 and was placed on the civil register by Lilee Products Company in Chicago. It was later passed to J.D. Reed, an air racing enthusiast, based in Houston. With some engineering modification, which involved cleaning up the aerodynamics of the airframe, Reed ensured that the aircraft flown by Charlie 'Firewall' Walling, achieved second place at the 1947 Miami Air Races, and second place at the Sohio-race in Cleveland in the same year.
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