The Bar-Belle Fleet
Barbel Abela and her Texan-Belle, a Harvard T-6 
Barbel holds seven Speed Records in the Douglas A26 Invader "Bar-Belle Bomber" with the National Aeronautic Association.
SPEED OVER A RECOGNIZED COURSE CLASS C-1.H
(26,455 lbs to 35,274 lbs) Piston Engine.
222.98 MPH
1. July 9th, 1992, GOOSE BAY TO REYKJAVIK
2. July 10th, 1992, REYKJAVIK TO LIVERPOOL
3. July 12th, 1992, LYDD TO CANNES
4. July 15th, 1992, CANNES TO LYDD
5. July 19th, 1992, SOUTHEND TO HELSINKI
6. July 23rd, 1992, HELSINKI TO BREMEN
7. July 24th, 1992, BREMEN TO SOUTHEND
Barbel Abela and Len Perry with the A26C at Oshkosh 1992
No mistaking the nose art on the warbird, A26 Invader, which is the star of Barbel Abela's growing fleet
Fifty years after the first flight of the Douglas A26 Invader, the "Bar-Belle Bomber" a magnificent example of the genre, heads the Bar-Belle fleet of eight aircraft. Three are unique, the A26C "Bar-Belle Bomber", Beech C-45G Expeditor "Beech Belle" and a Harvard IV painted as an AT-6 "Texan Belle". The fourth aircraft a Maule M6-235 Super Rocket "Is-a-Belle" and the fifth a J3-C-85 Cub "Jingle Belle". The remaining three are all Russian Yak's. A Yak 55-M, Yak 52 and Yak 50.
Runway 29 at White Waltham Airfield, the home of the West London Aero Club and one of the oldest and best known airfields in the UK. Set in 200 acres on the edge of a picturesque estate in the beautiful Berkshire countryside, it is one of the largest grass airfields in Britain.
