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I don't think I have ever seen USN Waves with a TBD before Source May 2025 – Inch High Guy

Interesting pictures, it looks like a JU88c without a gondola, and what looks to be the same 37mm cannons that were used on the He177 fighter prototypes. (I could easily be wrong about that) and I have no idea what is mounted under the nose were the ventral gunner gondola would normally be...

Interesting details, I assume that the large round cylinders attached to the large fuel carrying tubular wing spars favored by B&V at the time? Was fuel also carried in the floats?

I can't believe I did not catch that they were not 504's, the fact that they are single bay biplanes and not 2 bay biplanes should have raised doubt with the ID. Good catch!

Also only the 2 gun ports in the nose.

On my phone it’s hard to tell, it could be a B-24 or LB-30, it could also be a Nakajima G5N

Funny you should say that, I did take as much of old Rt 66 as possible from St Louis to Santa Fe missed a few miles along the way when it was pouring down rain.

While I do not know if the airline followed the strict twin engine over water maint procedures that allow 2 engine airliners to fly long over water routes previously served my 3 or 4 engine airliners. But we were not allowed to perform routine maintenance on both engines at the same time. this...

Made it to Taos New Mexico and catching up with other sports car owners we haven't seen in a year to spend a week being a general nuisance to the locals on our annual get together. Hoping to make some new friends from the western US this time. So far the food and company has been outstanding...

Nice shot of very early P-39's, they look to be unarmed, and taken at the airfield about 30 miles from my home. Still an active ANG and Navy Reserve base. The picture must have been taken sometime between February ( the unit was activated 1 Feb 1940 ) and March/April 1940 judging by the...

This may be one of the small instances when the AIM-54's long range could actually be used in combat. When I was in the Navy we used to joke the only way those missiles would shoot down an enemy Aircraft was to pull back 100 miles after making a positive visual identification of the contact. I...

I like the "Keep Out" drawn on the side, and like every good American I see the GI in the cockpit is following the directive! But hiding his face from the camera! ;)

I just don’t think of CV 4 being old enough to operate F4B’s, wrong again!😉

Speaking of "Coin slot" screws, they were still used on Shorts Brothers Aircraft at least into the late 1980's. The Shorts 360's had them in many places. The most aggravating place they had them were countersunk screw that held down the composite floor boards in the passenger compartment. They...

Are we sure that is a Ki-10? It looks more like a Kawasaki Ki-3 to my eyes